press all the right buttons

I bet she'd be really hot if you press all the right buttons."

And they were pressing all the right buttons to make us feel comfortable."

The directive presses all the right buttons and goes some way towards addressing the problem.

It's good craic though, and presses all the right buttons, with traditional musicians, a buzzy atmosphere and even a beer garden.

Grabbing for the phone at the side of the bed, she called information, got the number of his hotel, and, on the second try, pressed all the right buttons.

It will be the the party that tunes into this aspirational cultural optimism who will win the political day and Cameroon is pressing all the right buttons - at the moment.

Employing a drawl that falls somewhere between New York and Dublin, Mr. O'Connor presses all the right buttons for Gillespie, crochety yet compassionate, good old boy but nobody's fool.

Everything was too late for Waldo because he had been played to perfection, as if someone somewhere had a schematic diagram of his soul and had pressed all the right buttons to make him do what he was supposed to do.

And what I've got turns out to be two lovely kids, a nice house, a good job, a husband who doesn't beat me and presses all the right buttons on the lift . . . I can do this, I think.

Conclusion: a good speech - not as audience-rousing as I'd thought it might be, but pressing all the right buttons on foreign policy and the economy, and making it clear that this campaign's conciliatory message doesn't mean John McCain isn't going to get attacked lots.