Given Mr Brown's obsession with privacy, it would be a real scoop if anyone could persuade him to unbutton and talk about his personal life and feelings.
They also call on them to unbutton their lips, crying foul if their superiors over-egg (or ignore) their results.
TWO years ago, a television presenter insisted that Gianni Alemanno, a politician, unbutton his shirt.
The general office of Walker and Windermere solicitors is where the underpaid, over-worked typists unbutton their frustrations, yearn for true love and skip round the desks and files beyond the reach of Alex Robertson's suavely pleased-with-himself Mr Brewer.
A little more teasing out of the artistic negotiations between the two would have been welcome – one tantalising glimpse is given of Whistler's advice to Olivier: "You won't write your best book until you unbutton!" Did he think he could "unbutton" her conservatism, her restraint?
As the four singers unbutton their coats to become Ullmann's Soldier, Loudspeaker, Drummer Boy and Maiden, the Emperor announces universal war.
Unbutton the dress, unbuckle the belt, remove the frail slip.
In the theatre, for the most part, glamour belongs to those actors and performers who wear it like a second skin — a mystery you don't want to unbutton, let alone analyze.
He got straight stars to take their shirts off and divas to unbutton their blouses.
Kostya watched the larger gangster unbutton his jacket and slide his hand inside.
What if I told them how his hand had got stuck in the knot of my scarf when he tried to unbutton my coat in the crowded movie theatre?
