cotton Идиома

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cotton-picking

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

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cotton to that

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

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In the tall cotton

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

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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!

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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.

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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

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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]