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Buttonhole   /bˈətənhˌoʊl/   Listen
Buttonhole

noun
1.
A hole through which buttons are pushed.  Synonym: button hole.
verb
1.
Detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors.  Synonym: lobby.



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"Buttonhole" Quotes from Famous Books



... that could be easily remedied," she added, with a touch of archness. Then Mr. Iglesias thought it time to depart. In the hall his host held him, literally by the buttonhole, looking up with squinting blue ...
— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

... the reader by the "introduction" buttonhole, I want to make a suggestion or two about using a book like this. Do not, on the one hand, read it through and then put it away with the dictionary and the family Bible, and trust to memory for the instruction it may give; do not, on the other hand, wait until you think it is time ...
— Home Vegetable Gardening • F. F. Rockwell

... never believe that Frenchmen are changed, until I hear that there is no ballet in Paris; you might as well tell me, that the Swiss will abjure the money which makes a part of his distinction, as the Frenchman give up the laced coat, the powdered queue, and the order of St Louis at his buttonhole. Those things are the man, they are his mind, his senses, himself. He is a creation of monarchy—a clever, amusing, ingenious, and brave one; but rely upon my knowledge of human nature—if French nature be any thing of the kind—that ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 • Various

... on the arm of our dear Prince?" asked a little fat man, girt in a white satin waistcoat, and a spray of white lilac in his buttonhole. ...
— Serge Panine, Complete • Georges Ohnet

... it, and it really did look pretty from a distance, with its little close-clustered red roofs like a buttonhole bouquet floating on the sea. As the steamer brought us nearer the island something of the glamor faded; but there were about a dozen girls assembled to watch the arrival of the boat, wearing rather nice, winged white ...
— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson


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