Bedeutung: a reel of cotton

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cot Idiom

cotton-picking

thieving, doggone, flipping, ruddy Get your cotton-pickin' fingers off that bike! Don't touch it!

cotton to that

believe in that, do that, relate to that City folks play cards on Sunday, but we don't cotton to that.

great Scot

good gravy, gosh, heavens "When Dale gets excited, he says, ""Great Scot!"""

scot free

free of work or discipline, not asked to pay, get off Four members of the gang were convicted, but two went scot free.

beam me up Scotty

(interj) give me crack

cottage

1. the act of soliciting illicit and anonymous sex in a public place by male homosexuals. The "cottage" will often be a public lavatory; taking its name from when such UK conveniences looked cottage like
2. bad, old, worn-out, or stupid. A general derogatory adjective. "That stuff is cottage"

go scot-free

Idiom(s): go scot-free AND get off scot-free

Theme: FREEDOM

to go unpunished; to be acquitted of a crime. (This scot is an old word meaning "tax" or "tax burden.")
• The thief went scot-free.
• Jane cheated on the test and got caught, but she got off scot-free.

get off scot-free

Get away scot-free

If someone gets away scot-free, they are not punished when they have done something wrong. ('Get off scot-free' is an alternative.)

Great Scott

An exclamation of surprise.

In the tall cotton

A phrase that expresses good times or times of plenty and wealth as tall cotton means a good crop.

Scotch Mist

The phrase 'Scotch mist' is used humorously to refer to something that is hard to find or doesn't exist - something imagined.

Scot-free

To escape and not have to pay.

cotton-pickin'|cotton|cotton picking|pick|picking

adj., slang, colloquial Worthless, crude, common, messy. Keep your cotton picking hands off my flowers! You've got to clean up your room, son, this is a cotton-pickin' mess!

great Scott|Godfrey|Scott|great|great Godfrey

interj., informal A saying usually used to show surprise or anger. Great Godfrey! Uncle Willie is sitting on top of the flagpole! Great guns! The lion is out of his cage. Great Scott! Who stole my watch?

scot-free|free|scot

adj. phr. Without punishment; completely free. In spite of his obvious guilt, the jury acquitted him and he got off scot-free.

scotch broth|broth|scotch

n. A thick barley soup with vegetables and mutton or beef. Mother cooked a hearty scotch broth for dinner.

sitting on high cotton|cotton|high cotton|sitt on

adj. phr., informal Feeling pleased and happy; feeling successful. John was on top of the world when he found out that he got into college. When Ruth won first prize in the contest, she felt as though she was sitting on top of the world. The girls were sitting on high cotton because their basketball team had won the trophy.
Compare: FLYING HIGH, WALK ON AIR.

cotton

cotton
1.
cotton to
Etymology: ? < notion of cotton mixing well with wool, etc.
Informal
1) to become drawn to; take a liking to
2) Chiefly Brit. to become aware of (a situation)
also cotton on to
2.
cotton up to
Informal to try to ingratiate oneself, or make friends, with

cotton to

cotton to
1) Take a liking to, get along with, as in This dog doesn't cotton to strangers. Although this verbal phrase comes from the noun for the fabric, the semantic connection between these parts of speech is unclear. [Early 1800s]
2) Also, cotton on to. Come to understand, grasp, as in She didn't really cotton on to what I was saying. [Colloquial; early 1900s]

scot

scot
see get off.

scot and lot

scot and lot
pay scot and lot
To pay in full.

Scotch

Scotch
the Scotch
the Scottish people

Scottish

Scottish
the Scottish
the Scottish people