"hardly push" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something has been done only slightly or with minimal effort. For example, "I had to hardly push to open the stuck window."
Hardly pushing the boundaries with that one.
And Inner City Oceans, although it is the only fish farm in New York, is hardly pushing an unproven product.
Wallace hardly pushed Clemens the way his colleague Lara Logan had questioned President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
American officials deny that, but they are hardly pushing expansion either: in a one-page press release of six reforms it would like to see, the enlargement of the Security Council rates only a footnote.There is talk of a compromise, with a new tier of members that might serve long temporary terms of up to 12 years.
The non-selection of any of England's trio of tall, fast bowlers for the third Test in Perth is one of the enduring oddities of the winter, albeit Tremlett accepts his own low-key performance in Brisbane and the return to fitness of Tim Bresnan hardly pushed his own case for selection at the Waca.
It is hardly pushing it to find things in common between the finest recent hip-hop records – the sweet'n'sorrowful synth-rap of Kanye West's 808s and Heartbreak, the-Dream's Love and Money and Drake's Thank Me Later, music so keyboards-heavy and so into expressing its emotions you could call it "keymo" – and all the slow and spacey music being made in the name of glo-fi, chillwave and witch house.
Obama's people hardly pushed out the lifeboats when Brown arrived at the White House.
