Every time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took hygienic precautions.
As I approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight.
Then there is the headmaster, who is tall and bald, and wears gold spectacles, with a gray beard that flows down upon his breast; he dresses entirely in black, and is always buttoned up to the chin.
Martha had " buttoned up" her little sisters and brothers but she had never seen a child who stood still and waited for another person to do things for her as if she had neither hands nor feet of her own.
Imagine this was a customer, someone who you were trying to convince to buy your thing, and that you knew what you were doing, and you had attention to detail, and you had everything just buttoned up and under control.
Informal. I'm wearing an informal shirt. Yep. If I was wearing a formal shirt, it would be buttoned up. I would be wearing a tie. It would have cufflinks and I would have my jacket on. Yep.