Push back
Hi,
Let’s say that you’re driving to school and your GPS tells you that you’ll arrive at your destination at 11:15. However, you get stuck in a traffic jam and you lose five minutes so your final time changes to 11:20. If you then drive on the motorway for the rest of the journey unhindered by any traffic, you decrease the final time to 11:17. What would you use instead of ‘decrease’?
What about ‘push back’?
“I pushed my final time back by three minutes.”
Thank you.
Top answer
” If that's what you really want to write, then: I pushed my final arrival time forward by three minutes.
- ” If that's what you really want to write, then: I pushed my final arrival time forward by three minutes.
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Ann225What about ‘push back’?“I pushed my final time back by three minutes.”
If that's what you really want to write, then:
I pushed my final arrival time forward by three minutes.
0Ann225you’ll arrive at your destination at 11:15. However,...your final time changes to 11:20....you decrease the final time to 11:17.
You arrive only two minutes late.
You arrive two minutes earlier than you thought you would.
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