The phrase "a quick push" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a brief or sudden action that encourages or motivates someone or something to move forward.
Example: "All we need is a quick push to get the project off the ground."
Alternatives: "a brief nudge" or "a swift shove".
A quick push, a gentle splish-splash, and I am off on my own epic Cahulawassee
voyage, Deliverance-style.
When the vehicle is moving, a quick push of the button won't turn the engine off; the button must be held down for three seconds.
Two years ago he adopted a new sculling style a short jerk with the arms and a quick push with the legs.
Many expect a quick push to overhaul Russia's inscrutable tax code and economy and to reassert Kremlin rule over its 89 provinces -- goals supposedly too risky to chase when he was but an acting leader.
When the camera is running in continuous-capture mode, and the wearer suddenly sees a goal scored at a hockey game, for instance, a quick push of the button will tell the camera to automatically save a clip of the preceding 30 seconds.
Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to the first President Bush during the 1991 Persian Gulf war, urged the United States today to let the United Nations organize the postwar administration of Iraq and warned that a quick push for democratic transformation could explode into sectarian violence or civil war.
These findings suggested that participants who could generate more muscle force to get a quicker push-off speed during the final instants of the stance phase, were also able to move their center of gravity further away from their base of support.
Dr. Stanley said the appeal of solid rocket motors is a high thrust-to-weight ratio, which can provide a big, quick push off the launching pad.
"This is a different world, where you can easily access everything under the sun with the quick push of a button," said Craig Inciardi, an associate curator at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland who helped set up its New York annex last fall.
Read using a digital e-reader or tablet so that you can read and turn pages with the quick push of a button or by briefly touching the screen of the device.
"There must be a very important, and very strong, and very quick push from outside," Mr. Arafat said in an interview just after midnight in his battered, darkened compound here, where Israeli forces have confined him for almost three months.
