2007, Lucy Kellaway, The Real Office, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 20:
So start looking for another job today, but don't do anything hasty. It would be a mistake to jump before you are pushed. The great thing about being pushed is that you tend to get paid handsomely for the privilege.
2013, Mark Leier, Rebel Life, 2nd edition, New Star Books, →ISBN, page 33:
Most of the executive of the Miners' Liberation League repudiated Gosden in the hope that the miners would be freed if the MLL disassociated itself from the radical faction. Gosden himself jumped before he was pushed and tendered his resignation from the presidency on 23 January, citing the MLL's refusal to move beyond protest and its rejection of direct action as his reason.
2020, James Hawes, The Shortest History of England, The Experiment, →ISBN, page 238:
Thatcher's ratings slumped; her cabinet lined up against her; previously loyal MPs, whose voters were learning the dread words negative equity for the first time, thought of their futures; and she jumped before she was pushed, in November 1990.
