Buttoned up?

His overcoat was buttoned.

I'm going to stay buttoned up.

Just lie low and stay buttoned up, you understand?

I agree that we must stay low and... and buttoned up.

You don't want to rot in stir the rest of your life. Be sensible. Stay buttoned up.

Do you think it would be all right with my daddy if I buttoned up my shirt?

The father leaned against the door, his right hand stuck between two buttons of his buttoned up uniform.

There were holes all over it and torn, and he still buttoned it up because that's all he had.

It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family.

It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it would be as easy as possible for your family.

You see, we have questioned Lolita on the home situation but she says not a word, stays with her lips buttoned up.

I once had occasion to watch these men as they trooped in and out of first class hotels in an Asian capital, sleek figures in gold buttoned blazers.

Miles hadn't many brains, but he'd had too many years experience as a detective to be caught like that by a man he was shadowing up a blind alley with his gun on his hip and his overcoat buttoned.

Martha had buttoned up her little sisters and brothers but she had never seen a child who stood still and waited for another person to do things for her as if she had neither hands nor feet of her own.

I once had occasion to watch these men as they trooped in and out of first class hotels in an Asian capital, sleek figures in gold buttoned blazers. It was striking to see how often the most prosperous looking representatives came from the world s poorest countries.

The Paris summit is likely to be a buttoned down diplomatic battle among countries for grants to support their pledges to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of the pledges that will be made particularly in ravaged lands like Somalia, northern Nigeria, and Iraq s Anbar province is entirely uncertain.

Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.

Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.