| 单词 | on the button |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the button c. Boxing (originally U.S.). The point of the chin, considered as a target for a punch. Frequently in on the button. Cf. (right) on the button at Phrases 12.In this sense probably influenced by sense 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > chin > [noun] > points of pogonion1897 button1917 1917 N.Y. Times 29 May 12/1 Leonard sent over a right-hand blow, and followed with a light left which landed cleanly on the ‘button’, that part of a boxer's jaw which usually means unconsciousness when it has been hit. 1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) 278 I never saw a more accurate puncher than Rusty Charley, because he always connects with that old button. 1954 Pittsburgh Courier 4 Sept. ii. 4/4 Batie..went down from a terrific left hook to the button shortly after the opening bell. 1994 Observer 2 Oct. (Sport section) 7/2 The punch travelled maybe six inches, landing smack on the button, and put Lewis down. 2000 K. Norton et al. Going Distance xvi. 160 I hit Stephens with..a pulverizing left hook that caught him right on the button. (right) on the button Phrases P1. coarse slang. one's arse, etc., makes buttons: one is extremely worried or frightened. Similarly one's breeches make buttons. Also to make buttons: (of a person) to be extremely worried or frightened.With reference to an act of involuntary defecation: cf. sense 11 and to shit oneself at shit v. 3a. ΚΠ ?c1565 Iacke Iugeler (new ed.) sig. B.iii His arse makith buttens now, and who lustith to feale Shall find his hart creping out at his heele. 1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. B.ij Well I must begon, there is no remedy For feare my tayle makes buttons, by mine honesty. 1641 R. Brathwait Mercurius Britanicus i. sig. B They are in such danger, that as they say their breeches make buttons. 1662 A. Brome Rump (new ed.) 184 This Day a great Fart in the House they did hear, Which made all the Members make Buttons for fear. 1702 J. Tutchin Mouse grown Rat 23 My Breech began to make Buttons; I dream't of nothing but Impeachments, Attainders, Poll-Axes and Gibbets. 1848 J. Boyce Shandy M'Guire xi. 162 ‘I'll blow the sowl out i' ye.’ ‘Well..I was makin' buttons when I hard that.’ 1985 A. Innaurato Coming of Age in Soho 21 (Patricia shifts nervously.) Pasquale. It's fun bantering with you like this, Bucky, but my sister's standing there makin' buttons. 2012 D. O'Donnell Locked Ward (2013) vi. 53 My arse making buttons, I stalked off up the corridor. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > prosper or be successful > be assured of success it is in a person's buttonsa1616 to have (got) it made1944 to be golden1961 to have (got) it wired1976 a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. ii. 63 'Tis in his buttons [1602 betmes], he will carry't. View more context for this quotation 1888 Notes & Queries 10 Nov. 365/1 In the Isle of Axholme..if speaking of a person's fitness for any particular undertaking, that he will easily do it, we say ‘it's in his buttons’. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)] > talk excessively to word1602 to take (also seize, etc.) (a person) by the button1710 button-hold1838 buttonhole1848 to bend a person's ear1938 ear-bash1944 1710 Tatler 16 Dec. ¶3 Jasper Tattle Esq; was a most notorious Story-Teller;..he had detained another by the Button of his Coat that very Morning, till he had heard several witty Sayings and Contrivances of the Prosecutor's eldest Son. 1795 R. Cumberland Henry II. vi. xi. 317 He rose from his seat, when Henry,..taking him by the button, said—‘One more word if you please’. 1800 M. A. Hanway Andrew Stuart III. xiii. 235 My landlady having seized him by the button, and mounted her gossiping hobby, her career was not easily stopped. 1877 Sunday School Teacher 3 191 Another [teacher]..would perhaps take me by the button, and bore me for an hour about my spiritual condition. 1913 Nation 12 June 599/2 One person after another takes him by the button and astonishes him by telling him truths. P4. colloquial. dash (also damn, dang, bless, etc.) my buttons: expressing surprise, astonishment, exasperation, dismay, etc. Often used to intensify or emphasize a statement. Now somewhat archaic and rare (chiefly North American in later use). ΚΠ 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans III. xxxii. 161 I'd soon make you dance to a dozen at the bilboes, that's what I would, d——n my buttons. 1796 ‘J. Quicksilver’ Blue Shop 19 Dang my buttons (exclaimed I) but this writer is mighty witty. 1843 P. Leigh Jack the Giant Killer 18 ‘Dash my buttons,’ he cried, ‘I have lost my way!’ 1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand (1880) xliv. 332 Ding my buttons if she ain't more Southern than any of our own gals! It won't do for such a gal as that to go North for a husband. 1907 Mitchell (S. Dakota) Daily Republican 7 May Blow my buttons! Wot d'ye want? Ain't ye got a tongue? 1935 N.Y. Times 11 May 12/2 Dash my buttons! That's a good one! 1971 Columbia Missourian 25 Sept. 4/1 Bless my buttons! Doris Day falls in love. P5. Chiefly Nautical. button and eye (or †loop): a length of rope, leather, etc., with a loop or eye at one end and a knot at the other, used as a fastening or tie. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > becket becket1769 button and eye (or loop)1794 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 163 Button and Loop, a short piece of rope, having at one end a walnut knot, crowned, and at the other end an eye. It is used as a becket to confine ropes in. 1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 145 Button and eye pattern.—A loop of leather or webbing, one end of which is doubled into an eye, and the other gathered into a toggle or button. 1944 C. W. Ashley Ashley Bk. Knots xl. 523 A button and eye strap, for quick adjustment to a spar. Either a Matthew Walker Knot or a Manrope Knot may be used. ΚΠ 1795 G. Colman New Hay at Old Market i. i. 10 My father was an eminent Button-maker..but I had a soul above buttons, and..panted for a liberal profession. 1841 Odd Fellow 23 Oct. 170/2 He..has a soul above buttons, and affecting the gentleman, he falls into the hands of Sir Philip's valet. 1855 Pioneer (San Francisco) Oct. 25 Would you imagine..that [he]..has a soul above buttons, that he is a man of the finest sentiment, of the most exquisite sensibility? 1894 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 84 311/1 I..appreciate poetry, and, without being egotistical, I think that shows that I have a mind above buttons. 1902 N.Y. Times 27 Aug. (Mag. Suppl.) 8/2 We want something better than soup bones, blackheads, and bugs... The men..have an idea that women have no soul above buttons. P7. a. in buttons: wearing livery, esp. in boy (also man, etc.) in buttons: a manservant in livery, a pageboy. Cf. button boy n. at Compounds 2a and buttons n. 1 Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun] > liveried > boy > page in buttons1842 button boy1844 buttons1848 pageboy1859 1842 Bentley's Misc. Jan. 54 Despatches..brought by a little boy in buttons. 1857 Train Mar. 159 Clang! went the visitors' bell..and out came a sharp lad in buttons. 1876 A. Trollope Prime Minister II. xi. 172 During dinner..they were attended by a page in buttons whom he had hired to wait upon her. 1885 Chambers's Jrnl. 22 Aug. 541/2 Hi, hi! you boy there—you in buttons! 1905 Idler Apr. 548/1 Dickson..tipped a wink to the man in buttons as he passed. 1938 Scotsman 18 Mar. 16/4 A boy in buttons, whose ingratiating bow and greeting as you entered would make you..feel completely at home. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [verb (transitive)] > make a page of to put (a person) into buttons1846 1846 W. M. Thackeray Snobs of Eng. xxxix, in Punch 28 Nov. 225/2 We have a coachman and a helper, but we don't put the latter into buttons, nor make them wait at table. 1876 Belgravia July 77 A..crafty young scamp,..he was put into buttons and made the page-boy of the establishment. 1898 Quiver Jan. 491/2 His father and grandfather before him had been butlers..and.., when quite a lad, he had been put into buttons. P8. Preceded by a numeral, forming attributive phrases and derived nouns designating something (esp. a garment or an electrical or electronic device) having the specified number of buttons, as two-button, ten-button, etc. ΚΠ 1856 Morning Post 1 Aug. One or two dozen pairs of soiled ladies' two-button gloves wanted. 1884 W. D. Howells in Harper's Mag. Dec. 117/1 What if he should bring a ten-button instead of an eight! 1915 Electr. World 6 Nov. 1049/1 A three-button control panel for opening, closing or stopping the door. 1921 Boot & Shoe Recorder 29 Oct. 155/1 Spats..are moving rapidly. The twelve-button is the favorite with the women folks. 1988 PC Mag. 16 Feb. 202/3 The three-button mouse..may provide greater flexibility in some applications. 1990 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 20 May d3 Band leader Ward Lamand..plays a 10-button accordion. 2007 J. Burdett Godfather of Kathmandu xvi. 111 I'm in a four-button, double-breasted blazer.., tropical wool flannel slacks, and..patent leather slip-ons. P9. colloquial. one's buttons: one's mental faculties, wits, sanity. Used in various phrases, typically denoting (in negative contexts) an absence of rationality or diminishing intellectual powers, as not to have (got) all one's buttons (on), to have some of one's buttons off, to be losing one's buttons, etc. Also similarly to be a button short. Conversely to have all one's buttons (on): to be in full possession of one's mental faculties. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > be mentally deficient [verb (intransitive)] a screw loose1810 not to have (got) all one's buttons (on)1859 the world > health and disease > mental health > be sane [verb (intransitive)] to be one's own man (also woman, person)1556 to have all one's buttons (on)1890 1859 Always Ready xviii. 249 He's not a cadger, or a stuck-up looney; neither is he a button short, for he's all there. 1867 Family Herald 3 Aug. 216/1 What does that mean? That I've got a tile off—a screw loose? Not got all my buttons? 1890 Daily News 21 May 6/3 He is 83 years of age, but as we say hereabouts, has all his buttons on. 1892 Weekly Suppl. to Leeds Mercury 23 Jan. 7/4 In Wilsden, a person..lacking full mental capacities has ‘some of his buttons off’. 1911 F. Dumont Old New Hampsh. Home iii. 40 Tilly. Girl, I believe you've gone crazy since you left home. Muffins. Not me, aunty. I've got all my buttons. 1949 Billboard 9 Apr. 114/2 Critical friends..inferred Ferla didn't have all of his buttons about a year ago when he became involved in the rebuilding of Rocky Point Park. 1971 W. Stegner Angle of Repose iv. i. 184 Any signs of, you know, failing? Still seem to have all his buttons? 2013 J. McBride Good Lord Bird iii. xxix. 369 The Old Man was losing his buttons. I weren't in the mood to say good-bye to him. P10. Phrases with push, press, and semantically related verbs and nouns. a. at the touch (also press, click, etc.) of a button: used to emphasize the ease and speed with which something can be carried out or achieved, merely by pressing a button on a device (typically an electrical one). ΚΠ 1887 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 22 Mar. 7/1 Chief Ebersold was called in and took a position at the Central Station telephone, and, at the touch of a button, was ready to bring his whole force under arms in a few hours. 1911 Electr. Rev. 2 Dec. 1128/2 At the touch of a button this desk disappears through the floor, and in its place a steaming tureen of soup arises ready for serving. 1972 Guardian 24 Oct. 24/3 BBC engineers have invented a system which would give television viewers thirty television ‘pages’ of news at the push of a button. 1995 K. Toolis Rebel Hearts (1996) iii. 155 An individual wing would be sealed off at the flick of a button. 2016 Irish Times (Nexis) 26 Nov. (Weekend section) 2 We have access to a whole world of information that we previously would not have had access to. And it's there at the touch of a button. b. to press (also push) the button: to initiate a process or undertaking; to set something in progress, esp. so as to bring about a particular outcome. Cf. sense 4c.Originally with allusion to an advertising slogan for Kodak cameras; see quot. 1890. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > be efficacious [verb (intransitive)] workOE availa1400 makea1400 prevaila1400 to hit the nail upon (or on) the headc1450 effect1592 serve1593 to tickle it1601 take1611 executea1627 to have force (to do)1713 answer1721 to take place1789 to do the trick1819 to hit (also go to, touch, etc.) the spot1836 produce1881 to press (also push) the button1890 to come through1906 to turn the trick1933 to make a (also the) point1991 1890 N.Y. Times 18 Oct. 2/5 We have plenty of money to spend in good work, but we are like the Kodak Company. We want a good man to press the button; we'll do the rest. 1893 Amer. Economist 25 Aug. 100/2 Confidence and prosperity will return only when William McKinley ‘presses the button’ and starts the wheels of progress. 1914 E. Grey in Great Brit. & European Crisis 64 Mediation was ready to come into operation..if only Germany would ‘press the button’ in the interests of peace. 1936 J. Hanley Secret Journey ii. xii. 361 It's him who presses the button—who makes the borrowers dance—aye, he'd make Mother dance. He's got her in a trap. 1952 Catholic Hist. Rev. 37 498 Soviet imperialism..lay dormant from 1921 until Hitler pushed the button that started World War II. 1994 Irish Times 19 Feb. 2/5 The commander of the United Nations forces..will..forever be known as the man who ‘pressed the button’ and triggered all-out war with the Serbs. 2012 D. C. Friend Drowning in Dark ii. 11 She made the phone call that got the whole ball rolling. She was the one who ‘pushed the button’ so to speak. c. colloquial (originally U.S.) to push (also press) (all) the (right) buttons and variants: to have or demonstrate all the necessary or sought-after qualities, characteristics, or skills.Cf. to tick all the right boxes at box n.2 Phrases 11. ΚΠ 1937 C. Odets Golden Boy ii. iii. 146 You push the buttons, the right buttons. I wanna see Bonaparte with the crown. 1961 Freedom of Communication: Final Rep. U.S. Senate Commerce Comm. 87th Congr., 1st Sess. 702 I hear Ralph Houk is a fine young man who worked hard and waited long for this job, and if he pushes all the right buttons now he may wind up with as many oil wells as Casey Stengel. 1980 Chem. Week (Nexis) 12 Nov. 16 While he was on the campaign trail, President-elect Ronald Reagan seemingly pushed all the right buttons for business. 1987 S. Fiffer How to watch Baseball vi. 122 Howser seems to be pushing all the right buttons now. Biancalana singles, and Balboni stops at third. 2010 Washington Post 13 Oct. (Sports section) d7 Caldwell pressed the right buttons last season after inheriting the team from his retired predecessor. d. colloquial. to push (also press) a person's button(s) and variants: to elicit or provoke a reaction in a person; to manipulate someone psychologically or emotionally.Cf. button pusher n. 2, button pushing n. 2, and button pushing adj. 2. ΚΠ 1966 Sat. Evening Post 15 Jan. 36/4 Take it easy, man... Who pushed your button today? 1983 J. Macy Despair & Personal Power viii. 154 Developments and encounters can ‘push our buttons’ of fear and defensiveness. 1991 N.Y. Times 5 Nov. a18/6 I was real careful not to push any of her buttons because she had all the information and was going through her own emotional trauma. 2015 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 18 Apr. c2 My kids know how to push my buttons. They are clever and devious. P11. (as) cute as a button: extremely attractive; adorable, charming. Cf. sense 16. ΚΠ 1913 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Morning Jrnl. 27 Apr. (Society section) 2/3 Sam Pickard as ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ was ‘cute as a button’. 1938 Arizona Independent Republic 3 Dec. 5/5 (advt.) Dress your darling in cute-as-a-button coats with matching hat or cap. 1993 B. Kruger Remote Control (1994) 196 He's cute as a button, gosh darn naive, and sports that lucky kind of face, as comfy on the assembly line as at the country club. 2011 Times 13 Aug. (Sat. Review) 26/1 A cute-as-a-button little robot with a TV for a head and a bucketload of delightful expressions. P12. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.) (right) on the button. a. Used adverbially: in exactly the right place; right on target; at exactly the right time, punctually, precisely. Also in to hit it (right) on the button: to get it exactly right or absolutely correct (cf. to hit (also †smite) the (right) nail on the head at nail n. Phrases 1b).Cf. sense 9c. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [adverb] > at a particular or certain time > precisely rightsc1400 just1605 (right) on the button1925 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb] > exactly so, just rightOE evenOE alrightOE allOE evenlya1375 preciselyc1443 very1530 meet1543 on the spot1884 (right) on the button1925 spot on2009 1925 N.Y. Times 17 Aug. 11/1 Struck with the excellence of the first pitch, he hit it on the button and jabbed a vicious drive to right field. 1928 B. Hecht & C. MacArthur Front Page i. 34 He takes a final drink from the flask, then aims and throws it out the window. A scream of rage arises...On the button! 1945 M. Millar Iron Gates i. iv. 67 Even D'arcy hits it on the button sometimes. I think he's right. 1951 Washington Post 27 Dec. 12 b/3 (advt.) Sale-savings that would be rare on current, this-season coats... Be here on the button for yours. 1967 Westways Nov. 6/1 George Porter..glanced at his watch. Seven o'clock. Right on the button. 1990 Observer 23 Sept. 3/4 The bloke who said there's no place like home hit it right on the button. 2013 C. Hill Hidden 277 I'd have to be there at twelve o'clock on the button. b. Used predicatively: exactly right, absolutely correct; perfect. ΚΠ 1942 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. vii. 11/3 (advt.) In any job where good stuff, good craftsmanship and good headwork mean everything, Sloane is right on the button! 1946 Washington Post 24 Oct. 9/4 The timing between you and the ball holder must be right on the button. 1962 J. Glenn in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 142 All the factors of the flight..would have to be right on the button or we would not get into a proper orbit. There was little tolerance for errors. 1969 Chicago Daily Defender 29 Dec. 29/2 Everything we did was on the button. When you have prepared..as hard as these guys..and then lose..it is tough. 1993 S. McAughtry Touch & Go x. 80 ‘You're a single man and it's a free country.’ I nodded: ‘You're on the button there, all right’. 2009 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 7 Oct. 39 He was right on the button with his prediction. P13. (as) bright as a button: see bright adj. and n. Phrases 1; to burst one's buttons: see burst v. 8b; (it is) dollars to buttons: see dollar n. 3c. < as lemmas |
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