On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:07 PM, J Alfred Prufrock < [email protected]> wrote:
> Exactly what aspect of a button is cute? Enlightenment, anybody? > This is the best I got: http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/41/messages/652.html The reference *may* be to the bud in the buttonhole of a coat, which might have got shortened to button...like the "voice of the turtle dove" has been shortened to "voice of the turtle" (in "and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land."
