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Accost or detain a person in conversation. For example, The reporter tried to buttonhole the senator, but she got away . This term is a metaphor for literally grasping someone by a buttonhole on his or her clothing. [Mid-1800s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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