press/push the right button(s)
to do exactly what is necessary to get the result that you want:
You have to know how to push all the right buttons if you want to be a successful diplomat.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Successful (things or people)
- a heavy hitter idiom
- achiever
- alive
- alpha male
- ascendant
- chart
- fly
- have sth in your pocket idiom
- have the world at your feet idiom
- healthy
- high-flyer
- high-flying
- lion
- ride
- roll
- to have arrived idiom
- top-rated
- tried
- triumphant
- up and down idiom
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