Idiom
sew buttons
Meaning
Used in response to someone asking "so?"
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“A: So? B: Sew buttons.”
“When he asked me what I thought about his bad idea, I just told him to sew buttons.”
“She grew tired of his constant, prying questions and finally dismissed his curiosity by telling him to sew buttons.”
Examples
simple
“A: So? B: Sew buttons.”
contextual
“When he asked me what I thought about his bad idea, I just told him to sew buttons.”
complex
“She grew tired of his constant, prying questions and finally dismissed his curiosity by telling him to sew buttons.”
Origin
The idiom relies upon the homophony between the conjunction *so* and the verb *sew*. It is a punning response employed when an interlocutor concludes a statement with *so*, the phonetic coincidence allowing for the suggestion that the speaker ought to finish the job by attaching buttons.
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