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Meanings of button up in English
Synonyms
Examples for "fall silent"
Examples for "fall silent"
1
They heard her voice rise sharply at one point, then fall silent.
2
The truth of what she'd just said made them all fall silent.
3
Mr Naidu said people would fall silent if clause 24 is enacted.
4
I let the lute fall silent and began to think very quickly.
5
Again he would fall silent, with an anxious gleam in his eyes.
1
I shall be very interested to see how you work, close up.
2
It'd been a long time since I'd seen one so close up.
3
Dain caught a glimpse; another two said they saw it close up.
4
The property allows city folk a rare close up of working farms.
5
The sea was already close up to the stern of the boat.
1
She would immediately clam up or try to change the subject.
2
If I asked him questions straight out, he might clam up.
3
This caused the three Martians to clam up and look at one another.
4
Wallander thought that if he pushed too hard the boy might clam up.
5
You can't just say something like that and then clam up!
1
If you dummy up on cops they will slap you around.
2
Meet Mr. Wood! she declared happily, holding the grinning dummy up in front of her.
3
Lindy lifted the dummy up by the legs, then slammed his body hard against the floor.
4
She hoisted the dummy up from the chair where it had spent the day beside Lindy's dummy.
5
Best to just dummy up.
1
The arms shut up in the arsenals were distributed among the populace.
2
Mrs. Sutcliffe would be shut up in the dining-room with the sewing-party.
3
The gnomes kept me shut up in their hill all the time.
4
The place is now shut up, and the owners live in France.
5
The troubled times of the Regulators shut up the courts of justice.
1
Then he got out, hitching his belt up over his considerable girth.
2
So why do they sometimes belt up and other times don't?
3
On the accessory front, men and women can belt up for the season.
4
She is urging road users over the Easter break to " belt up".
5
She brought the belt up, undid the loop, then wrapped it around her waist.
1
The one thing in the world we wanted was to be quiet.
2
She should avoid forwardness, and be quiet in manner and in speech.
3
I wish I were there; it must be quiet at any rate.
4
The men are required to be quiet and orderly in their deportment.
5
The horses are only a little balky; they will be quiet soon.
1
Well, you had better warn her to keep mum before her father.
2
And I know you'll be a friend of mine, and keep mum.
3
It don't make any difference WHAT happens, we got to keep mum.
4
Well, keep mum 'bout it, will ye, till I talk to him?
5
He thinks it a good joke and he will keep mum.
Usage of button up in English
1
Tell her to button up her suit and turn her radio on.
2
I button up my jacket, thanking God for the warmth of it.
3
She began to button up her coat again with sure, thin fingers.
4
All he could do was button up again and hope nobody had noticed.
5
Then button up the coat, and do the same with that.
6
Gawker serves as a cautionary tale to button up your security procedures pronto.
7
Stepping onto the cairn mound, I told everyone to button up their coats.
8
The officer ordered the men to button up their sergeant's protrusion.
9
Holden considered ordering her to button up her helmet, then shrugged.
10
Then he clapped Edgar's shoulder and told him to button up.
11
Do I have time to button up my loose ends here?
12
Decoud, with his back to the table, began to button up his coat.
13
The air grew progressively cooler until Ash had to button up her jacket.
14
Me, I aim to button up my pocket when them guys are around.
15
And I don't just mean being unable to button up my white coat.
16
As I button up my shirt I am looking at his bald head.
This collocation consists of:
Button up through the time
Button up across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common