you never give anything below your own taste level — something you wouldn’t want, but suppose is good enough for others. - Judith Martin

while eighteen-button gloves have three small pearl buttons each at the musketeer (which everyone knows is the opening at the wrist), there are, indeed, eighteen buttons on each in length. That button is a standard of measurement of approximately one inch. The approximate part is because it is a French standard of measurement.

the standing ovation from a rare and valued tribute

Once a cad was someone who enticed a lady into consummating a promised marriage before the ceremony had taken place.