put pressure on | The Australian Dictionary of Invisible Culture for Teachers

The Australian Dictionary of Invisible Culture for Teachers

put pressure on

verb: someone does something (see more)

Someone (e.g. Jordan) wanted someone else (e.g. Darcy) to do something. Jordan knew that Darcy wasn’t thinking like this at this time: I want to do it, I will do it because of this.

Because of this, Jordan said something like this to Darcy “I want you to do it, it will be bad if you don’t do it.”

Jordan thought that if she said something like this to Darcy for some time, Darcy would think like this: I have to do it, it will be bad if I don’t do it.

Jordan wanted Darcy to think like this.

Many people in Australia think it is not good if someone does something like this.

"Alex put pressure on Shane to stay late after work, so they could get more done on the project."

"Jennie always put pressure on Rachel to do well at her studies."

"Donald Trump's US tax cut plan could put pressure on Australian Government to follow suit"

against imposing one’s will on someone else not being forced to do something not forcing someone to do something

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