英语词汇buttonhole的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

buttonhole. “Barricade your door against the button- holding world!” a British magazine warned its readers over a century ago. Button-holding, “grabbing a man by the top but- ton of his coat and holding on with all the strength of the bor- ing until you sell him one thing or another,” was so common in the early 19th century that button-holder was defined in many dictionaries as “one who takes hold of a man’s coat by the button so as to detain him in conversation.” People must have been button-holding and wearying people in France, too, at the time, for the French had a similar phrase. In those days men’s coats had buttons all the way up to the neck, in- cluding one on the lapel that could be buttoned in cold weather. When fashion decreed that upper buttons be elimi- nated, button-holders didn’t suddenly reform. Instead, they began grabbing people by the buttonholes designers (for no good reason) left on the lapels and the phrase became to but- tonhole. According to Robert Caro’s Master of the Senate (2002), Lyndon Johnson perfected the “buttonhole” tech- nique, sometimes holding a man so hard by the buttonhole in his lapel that the buttonhole ripped.

词汇	buttonhole
词源	buttonhole. “Barricade your door against the button- holding world!” a British magazine warned its readers over a century ago. Button-holding, “grabbing a man by the top but- ton of his coat and holding on with all the strength of the bor- ing until you sell him one thing or another,” was so common in the early 19th century that button-holder was defined in many dictionaries as “one who takes hold of a man’s coat by the button so as to detain him in conversation.” People must have been button-holding and wearying people in France, too, at the time, for the French had a similar phrase. In those days men’s coats had buttons all the way up to the neck, in- cluding one on the lapel that could be buttoned in cold weather. When fashion decreed that upper buttons be elimi- nated, button-holders didn’t suddenly reform. Instead, they began grabbing people by the buttonholes designers (for no good reason) left on the lapels and the phrase became to but- tonhole. According to Robert Caro’s Master of the Senate (2002), Lyndon Johnson perfected the “buttonhole” tech- nique, sometimes holding a man so hard by the buttonhole in his lapel that the buttonhole ripped.
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