button down

button down

To fasten or secure something in place with buttons. A noun or pronoun can be used between "button" and "down." Button down your pocket so that nothing falls out of it. Button that flap down so it doesn't get blown around by the wind.
See also: button, down
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

button something down

to fasten something down with buttons. Button your collar down. You look too casually dressed. Please button down your collar.
See also: button, down
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • button up
  • ask down
  • bear down
  • batter
  • batter down
  • belt down
  • belt down (something or someone)
  • be down to (do something)
  • be down to something
  • bind (something or someone) down
References in periodicals archive
Go back to the spreadsheet, put the cursor in cell A3, and hold the left mouse button down.
Hold your left mouse button down, and drag the cursor over to column B until the data in column B is highlighted with a blue line.
Hold left mouse button down and drag graph up until the dotted lines are below the X-axis tick marks of the first graph.
Hold CTRL button down and left click once in "chart area" of each of the remaining legs.
Center the label by left clicking once on edge of textbox, hold the left mouse button down and drag the condition label into place.
Move your cursor to the "X" axis of your last leg of your multiple baseline graph, place the cursor where you would like a condition line (e.g., between baseline and intervention) to be, hold your left click mouse button down, drag up until the line ends at the top of your first le g of your multiple baseline graph, as shown in Figure 2 (at the end of this article).
Combine white denim with washed out chambray button down shirts for a classic weekend look.
Choose form five classic options button cuff with button down collar, in white, pink or Bengal stripe, or the more formal double cuff with soct collar in white or blue.
If you're short and wearing a button down shirt, you should be tucking it in 90 per cent of the time.
Instead of a shortA[degrees]sleeved button down, wear a longA[degrees]sleeved shirt and then cuff the sleeves.