How to pronounce“buttonhole”in English
verbpoint it's now definitely not an aberration and Chris I'm thinking back to when Nick wart from news night was sat in this studio a couple of weeks ago
and he was saying he'd been buttonholed by a sitting cabinet minister who said oh my cabinet colleagues including amongst them Rachel Reeves haven't
realized how much of their economic agenda could basically be torpedoed by decisions made by Donald Trump whether it's direct decisions affecting Britain
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Definitions of “buttonhole”
A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
“He backed Mr. Lykins against an iron fence, buttonholed him, fastened him with his eye, like the ancient mariner, and proceeded to unfold his narrative as placidly and peacefully as if we were all stretched comfortably in a blossomy summer meadow instead of being persecuted by a wintry midnight tempest: […]”
To cut one or more buttonholes (in).
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