The word "shove" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are speaking about an action involving pushing or forcing someone or something in a certain direction. For example: He gave the door a shove and it finally opened.
Surely all kinds of devious and slimy goondas (criminals) must be trying to find a way to shove them out and put up trendy apartments overlooking the sea? "All the time, every week a property developer comes saying this or that, not even our homes but saying they will buy land and build something,"says Manish.
Presented with such pointless measures, most people (and by most people I mean everyone) would rightly tell the tobacco companies to go shove their cancer sticks in a sun-free spot.
A laziness grew up that meant that if the artistic directorship didn't really like a play they could always shove it on Upstairs, as a way of hedging their bets.
Push come to shove, I've been fair to him, ain't I? Is that not tacit approval for any action against Dee, if necessary?
But stepping stones can be slippery buggers - a careless stride, a bad choice of footwear or a shove from a mischievous co-traveller and you're in the rushing rapids either to sink without trace or to desperately grab for the nearest immoveable object.
Even if push came to shove they'd be loans, not gifts outright.
This is how millions of women feel every month, whether it's the hormonal upheaval (there's a footbridge near me which I daren't take one day a month in case my hormones shove me off it), the sledgehammer pain in your back and belly, the bloating, or the vanished energy.
And while Moyles has seemed to thrive on scraps with rival hosts during his time in the chair – most notably with his equivalents at Radio 2, Chris Evans and Terry Wogan, of whom Moyles once said "I'll tear that wig off his head and shove it up his arse" – he was never going to be able to argue himself younger.
Indeed, the prevailing consensus seems to be a not-too-faint echo of the classic Britpop statement from Jarvis Cocker (who is himself a long-time Paris resident): "You can take your Year in Provence and shove it up your arse!" Actually, Jarvis is making a serious point and I agree with him.
But the Pride story brings into sharp relief the sense that, as with society at large, though audiences may be broadly OK with being gay, it's as well not to shove it in people's faces.
Of course, every issue cannot be researched like that and "when push comes to shove, I vote on intuition".
