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• n  a hole through which buttons are pushed
• v  detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors

• If he wasn't satisfied with the answers he got, he'd go up to the executive suites and buttonhole Storms himself.
• There Partner Felix Warburg, a carnation in his buttonhole, summons the eleven partners to conference punctually at 11 a.
• The Idea: Free buttonhole flowers.

• button hole
• lobby

News & Articles

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• Tech Pushes to Keep Its Spoils in Immigration Bill
  The technology industry this week dispatched executives and entrepreneurs to buttonhole lawmakers and rallied people to mount a digital campaign on Congress.
  June 14, 2013 - New York Times
• Bits Blog: Tech Pushes to Keep Its Spoils in Immigration Bill
  The technology industry this week dispatched executives and entrepreneurs to buttonhole lawmakers and rallied people to mount a digital campaign on Congress.        
  June 14, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Christian Wulff in Earthtimes
  The start is important - if you button a cardigan and start with the wrong buttonhole, you can continue buttoning but it won't close properly,Wulff said.
• Stephanie Pearl-McPhee in Christian Science Monitor
  Think of how freeing this is as a knitter,says Pearl-McPhee, whose blog can be found at yarnharlot.ca/blog. "Up until blogging, if you knit a [bad] buttonhole you might be stuck until you can get to a knitting store. Now, I can take a...
• Michael Bond in Times Online
  Nor did we expect to be tripped up by jealousy, bureaucracy, trades unions and political correctness - or that we would be naive enough to entrust our business to what Michael calls "the kind of hail-fellow-well-met character who might buttonhole...