push together

English

Verb

push together (third-person singular simple present pushes together, present participle pushing together, simple past and past participle pushed together)

1. (transitive) To surreptitiously and/or inadvertently set up two people to hook up as partners in romance, business, crime, etc.

   The more you try to break Romeo and Juliet apart, the more you'll push them together.

   • 2014, Hilary Norman, Fear and Loathing: A detective mystery set in Miami‎:

     I think we pushed them together,' Rita said... "If we'd been less opposed, less angry, perhaps they mightn't have felt they had anything to prove, and we might still have them.