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button up
verb
to fasten (a garment) with a button or buttons
informalto conclude (business) satisfactorily
slangtaciturn; silent and somewhat tense
Idioms and Phrases
Close securely, fasten, as in The house was all buttoned up , or Button up your coat—it's very cold . [Late 1500s]
Also, button one's lip . Hold one's tongue, keep quiet. For example, Please button your lip about the surprise . A variant of this usage, button one's mouth , dates from the 17th century. [Mid-1800s]
Finish successfully, as in I've got this report all buttoned up . [c. 1940]
Example Sentences
“He knows how to walk a deal through step by step to make sure that everything is complete and buttoned up,” Buss said, “and that’s exactly what happened.”
While being escorted into the ceremony in the Capitol, eyes hidden behind her hat and coat buttoned up, she was a dead-ringer for H.G.
It was all about the cool dark shirt, the leather jacket, the black suit button up… I asked myself “how am I gonna be different here and also comfortable?”
“I feel like the women in her work were always messy and more complex and they were quite flawed or as buttoned up as the rom-com heroines of Hollywood’s golden age,” Kaplan says.
“You don’t get to be Diddy... unless the people around you were buttoned up. There was nobody around him sloppy.”
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