The phrase "a pushover for the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is easily influenced or manipulated by a particular person or thing.
Example: "She is a pushover for the latest fashion trends, always buying whatever is popular."
Alternatives: "easily swayed by" or "a soft touch for".
"It was the newsreels: I was a pushover for the prettified black-and-white 'truth' they served up".
No, it wasn't the newspapers that fed my hero worship but the newsreels: I was a pushover for the prettified black-and-white "truth" they served up.
To game the system by trying to promote a pushover for the president to flatten in November requires a falsehood, or at least a bit of trickery.
On the other hand, she is a pushover for the puppy, allowing it up on the pale cream couch, where it snuggles into the space between the reporter's laptop computer and lap, gently snoring.
The president who has been aloof and remote and a pushover for the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, who has been locked in the troubling embrace of the Geithners and Summers and Ben Bernankes of the world, all of a sudden is a man of the people.
"No," I said proudly, "I won't be a pushover for the rest of my life, but you will be a monster bitch for the rest of yours!" My transformation wasn't easy - it took a long time to differentiate between self assertion and bad manners.
The Economist charged that the chief was a "pushover" for Wall Street, and The Wall Street Journal opined that the Bernanke Fed had become a "Pavlovian" slave to the market.
Handicaps have not been a pushover for backers at York but the best bet of the week is Class Is Class (1.45) providing he makes the final cut in Wednesday's opener, the Motability Stakes.
The fashion industry, a pushover for spiritual fads like feng shui and cabala, has now embraced karma.
Against this background, and with Mr. Putin's government needling Mr. Obama with threats about renouncing New Start, can Mr. Obama respond in a way that both better defines the Russian leadership the United States is dealing with and makes clear that the U.S. president is not a pushover for it?
