I've learned that we are irrationally attached to favourite bras and love our pyjamas, that we have a passion for perfume (or scent, as my mother would say), like sexy big pants but not "panties", and we laugh like drains when buttons fall off, boobs fall out or goats eat skirts.
Truss's tone is so relentlessly larky, and her imagery so parochial, that American readers will find much of this book incomprehensible, let alone unfunny: "Well, if punctuation is the stitching of language, language comes apart, obviously, and all the buttons fall off.
It will be clean and germ-free, without any eyes or buttons falling off! Sprinkle a little meat tenderizer on armpit stains before throwing a shirt in the wash.
Remove All Buttons - Turn over face and let all the buttons fall on to table.
Whether it is Steinbrenner's instant criticism, his blustery remarks or his high expectations, Torre treats every noise from him as if a button fell off his shirt.
The owner Rose Button fell for this peaceful spot six years ago, renovated the dar and decorated the six rooms and salons in a minimalist, modern-Moroccan style.
Describing her favorite new top from Forever 21, Fowler says: "I had to sew a button back on it, 'cause the button fell off, and my mom taught me how to sew the button on.
Although the same year Richards and Button fell out over the driver's proposed move to Williams and by the end of the year the team principal had been ousted by the new owner, Honda, what Button learned stayed with him.
A shirt button fell off because God.
Further down the order, Massa overcame his gearbox penalty to finish fourth, while Jenson Button fell from twelfth on the grid to sixteenth at the end of the first lap, using an alternative strategy to claw his way back up to fifth.
"As adults, are these kids going to be able to solve any problems, like if a button falls off your shirt?
