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on the buttoninformal, chiefly US 1Punctually: we arrived at 5.20 on the button...- On another day trip, we heeded the lure of Cordoba, spirited there by a train that left on the button and arrived on the nail.
- I was pleased when I was there to see everyone get in on time and lessons started right on the button.
- From All Cannings Bridge, I was picked up on the button by a Wigglybus, a pleasing local speciality: it wiggles away from its scheduled route by appointment made on the phone.
1.1Exactly right: the programme is right on the button every time...- The Lingard and Neil Law three-quarter partnership is not yet on the button but it was spot-on when the latter put the former in for his second.
- Diva may be an overused word, but it's bang on the button here.
- He would advise property developers on how to get funding and seemed to be quite on the button, quite switched on.
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