(informal) To take suitable actions, or exert suitable influence on people, to achieve some desired result.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of push someone's buttons

Alternative form of sew buttons (“humorous response to someone asking "so?"”)

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of button up one's lip

The act of detaining someone in conversation against his or her will.

simple past tense and past participle of buttonhole

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buttonhole

present participle of buttonhole

A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one. / (chiefly Britain) A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.

(transitive, colloquial) To detain (a person) in conversation against their will. / (transitive, intransitive) To cut one or more buttonholes (in). / (transitive) To sew by buttonhole stitch.