Meaning of hold by the button | Babel Free

Definitions

To detain in conversation to the point of weariness or tedium; to bore while tallking to

archaic, idiomatic, transitive

Examples

“When a slanderer addresses himself to any one, let him only withhold his attention, while he argues thus with himself: --- Why does this man hold me by the button, and seem so desirous of calling my attention to another's failings?”

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