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/ɑn ðə bˈətən/ Listen

On the button

adjective

Being precise with regard to a prescribed or specified criterion. Synonym: on the nose. "The prediction for snow was right on the button"

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"On the button" Quotes from Famous Books

... had been made, he felt easier. There was an intercom on the desk in front of him and he leaned with a heavy thumb on the button ...

— Planet of the Damned • Harry Harrison

... application, since it takes its current from the ordinary piles that supply domestic call-bells. It consists essentially of a fine platinum wire supported by a tilting device in connection with the two poles of a pile composed of three Leclanche elements. Upon exerting a vertical pressure on the button placed to the left of the apparatus, either directly or by means of a cord, we at the same time turn the cock and cause the platinum spiral to approach, and the latter then becomes incandescent as a consequence of the closing of the circuit of the pile. After the burner ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 • Various

Words linked to "On the button" : exactly, on the nose, precisely, precise