Usually means: Spend more money than usual.
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  1. push the boat out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. push the boat out: Merriam-Webster
  3. push the boat out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. push the boat out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. push the boat out: Wiktionary

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  1. push the boat out: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (push the boat out)

verb:  (British, idiomatic) To do something, especially spend money, more extravagantly than usual, particularly for a celebration.

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