hold by the button
English
Verb
hold by the button
- (transitive) To detain in conversation to the point of weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hold by the button in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)