push off

verb3

1. •
   (informal) To go away; to get lost.

   • I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years’ dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term. — 1851
2. •
   To delay, postpone, put off, push back.

   • Far from precipitating that event therefore he pushed it off until the very last moment, when, in fact, there was no alternative left him. — 1826
3. •
   To push an opponent back, a form of personal foul.