button up

Draco Malfoy was standing there with his wife and son, a dark coat buttoned up to his throat.

They had the whole system buttoned up, there was never going to be a critical word about this in the United States.

He stood erect in the half-open door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which was buttoned up to the chin.

OFT GmbH headquartered in Neuss, Germany buttoned up to the consumer sales cold foil membership card after decoration techniques.

Schmidt is buttoned up and egoistic. He tries not to smoke his own cigars, but prefers to borrow somebody's else.

It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

Once a buttoned-up industry, its change in attitudes is now apparent, from the open-necked hedge fund managers of Mayfair to the big banks.

Even if the double breasted blazer look is not for you, take note of the preppy buttoned up shirt minus tie.

You seem like the buttoned-up type who would be too polite to protest.

The new contract is all buttoned up now.

They asked the defendant several questions, but he buttoned up his mouth.

For the first 15 years I worked thinking that management expected me to have everything buttoned up.

Now, at least in some situations, the tank could stay buttoned up while the GI on the phone acted as a forward artillery observer.

Sometimes, as Nick and I buttoned up a car he'd just brought back from the dead, I'd promise myself Mary Ann and I were over.

I buttoned up my thick overcoat to the neck and seating myself under a platform lamp went on with my reading.

Another good place is in the buttoned-up inside pocket of a jacket. There is just no way in .

I've got that new job buttoned up and I'll finish it well on time.

It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family.

A new survey showed . When it cornea to raw emotion. The once buttoned-up Brits are now happy to drop tears quite openly.

After packing his things with his practised old hands, the traveller buttoned up his sheepskin.

Indifference and bad manners are spreading; even in restaurants, people seem buttoned up.

the fund is buttoned - up , hierarchical and preoccupied with hard money and sound budgets.

When it comes to raw emotion , the once buttoned-up Brits are now happy to shed tears quite openly.

I will never forgive my mother for making me wear a buttoned up blazer and skirt down to my knees on my first day.

He buttoned up his jacket and moved forward with ceremonious deference.

My father seemed to transform each Monday, from a boisterous, opinionated cook to a more cautious, buttoned-up office manager.

At a central office, his buttoned-up assistant Maria (a fan of 'melodic death metal') leads us to him.

The fund is buttoned-up[2], hierarchical and preoccupied with hard money and sound budgets.

buttoned his shirt; buttoned up her raincoat.

everything on the submarine was buttoned up.

The deal should be buttoned up by tomorrow.

it looks very neat on a black coat buttoned up .

He buttoned up and listened.

But they buttoned up their lips about it.

Your shirt is buttoned up wrong.

She buttoned up her blouse .

I've never met anyone so buttoned up.

He was really buttoned up.

The good news, though, is that companies even in traditionally buttoned-up sectors are embracing a kind of smart-casual liberation.

You have buttoned up your coat the wrong way.

we had the target buttoned up and he was jinxing in the flak