Meaning of collarbutton | Babel Free

Examples

“She was peddling trinkets amongst the wharf-loungers—pocket combs, little round mirrors, shoestrings and collarbuttons.”

“The time of production was shortened under machine labor comparatively with hand labor to about: ⅔ in the manufacture of fiowerpots,[…]; ¹⁄₁₅, seals, pitchforks, collarbuttons, threading pipe, canning fruit, cigars, dash boards, and iron pipe, wrought.”

“LENINE’S finish does not interest us especially, but we hope that Trotsky will live long enough to resume business in the Bronx, dispensing shoelaces and collarbuttons.”

“One has the feeling that these devouring industrial dinosaurs, wreathed in cruel gusts of steam like Moloch, grind out collarbuttons or something equally puny.”

“I could hypnotize myself into a belief that souls were “lost,” like collarbuttons under a bureau, and I was the one man to rescue them.”

“In the hold of his schooner he loaded the entire stock of his store—all the canned goods, the rubber boots, the caps and needles and small tools, the fireworks and calendars, even the glass-fronted showcases where he kept gold-plated collarbuttons and cigarette lighters.”

“The people on the grand jury were men, old men mostly, with chicken skin hanging over their collarbuttons.”

“When Ohio flexes its muscles, athletic collarbuttons pop all over America. One never knows exactly where or when a Buckeye—or even worse, a team of Buckeyes—might drop by and carry off all the trophyware.”

“At eight o’clock, Brother Hamid showed up at the Office to Combat Vices in his off-duty gear: brown slacks and a black long-sleeved shirt, collarbuttons undone.”

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