push the envelope

Definitions

Commerce

• verb to go beyond normal limits, especially to attempt to do something that is highly innovative and rather risky

Slang

• verb to test or extend limits, go too far. The term, used in fiction by Tom Wolfe and john Grisham, derives from the jargon of test pilots: the envelope is the ultimate technical capability as expressed on a graph.

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