Ummm one nitpick. This is not abuse, it's the intended use of the phrase. Its application is to achieve your goal or enforcing your decision regardless of supe

Ummm one nitpick. This is not abuse, it's the intended use of the phrase. Its application is to achieve your goal or enforcing your decision regardless of superior's stance. Other wording i know is (loosely transtalted) to put somebody against a fact (as opposed to decision). It precisely because overriding a done deed is harder that arguing against or disallowing it.