push the envelope

“If you ask, what do we do when we wake up in the morning, it’s about, how do we push the envelope in high-performance computing?”

“I just wanted to push the envelope in that situation since we hadn’t had anything going on since the first inning.”

Ultimately, whatever aspirations England had to push the envelope, it made more sense to shove it up the jumper.

He would push the envelope, and Freeman would rein him back in if need be.

But though “Lurker” could certainly push the envelope further, Matthew’s ascent, fall from grace and gradual climb back up wouldn’t feel as realistic as it needs to for the film to land its sickly ending.