do up a button

Frequency: 6.58.0 per million words

To fasten a button.

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Examples (10)

  • It's cold, you should do up the top button of your coat.
  • Can you help me do up this tricky button on the back of my dress?
  • He quickly did up the buttons on his shirt before leaving for work.
  • Doing up the tiny buttons on a baby's clothes requires a lot of patience.
  • She couldn't do up the final button because it was missing.
  • Please do up your buttons properly; your shirt is askew.
  • I'll just do up this last button and then I'll be ready to go.
  • She taught her young son how to do up his own buttons.
  • My fingers were so numb from the cold I could barely do up a single button.
  • Before the performance, the actor nervously did up every button on his costume.