hold by the button

== English == === Verb === hold by the button (third-person singular simple present holds by the button, present participle holding by the button, simple past and past participle held by the button) (archaic, idiomatic, transitive) To detain in conversation to the point of weariness or tedium; to bore while tallking to Synonym: buttonhole === References === “button”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.