We're still 12-2. It's not like we're pushing the panic button.

The players are determined and they're finding ways to win. They push toward it without pushing the panic button.

Everything seems OK (in the clubhouse). We're not going to push the panic button.

Is there a panic button I can hit? Or better yet, a button that will pause this whole scene while I figure out how I want to play it?
But no. That's not how it works in real life.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb

On fortune's cap we are not the very button.