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hold by the button

verb

Definitions

  1. To detain in conversation to the point of weariness or tedium

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

    • 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?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hold by the button. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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