panic button

Four factors have stopped Democrats from pushing the panic button: 1.

My peers, colleagues, and friends in the financial-political-punditocracy rushed to hit the panic button and assign blame.

Otherwise “Republicans going to hit the panic button” and start pouring their money into saving congressional seats.

Now, you listen carefully: If you push the panic button on this one without cause, I will personally flay you alive.

Chow thought some Martian monsters were invading us, and sort of pushed the panic button.

"I certainly pushed the panic button on that young man," he said.