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cotton (on)to someone or something

Rur. to begin to like or agree to someone or something quickly. She began to cotton to Fred, despite his country ways. She cottoned onto Jane's way of thinking.

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When my father started for himself, there were many men in Manchester who were willing to labor in this way, but they had no factory to work in, no machinery to work with, and no raw cotton to work on, simply because all this indispensable plant, and the materials for producing a fresh supply of it, had been appropriated by earlier comers. An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context "Decent, respectable Scotchwomen who keep inns," interposed Geoffrey, "don't cotton to young ladies who are traveling alone. Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context			copy out copy out of cordon cordon bleu cordon off core cork cork high and bottle deep cork up corner corner the market corner the market on corral correct correlate with correspond correspond to correspond with cost cost a bomb cost a pretty penny cost an arm and a leg cost dear cost out cotton cotton to cotton up to cotton-picking couch couch in couch potato cough cough head off cough out cough up could could be better could be worse could care less could do with could do with one arm tied behind back could fight a circle-saw could have fooled me could hear a pin drop Could I be excused? Could I call you? Could I come in? Could I get by, please? Could I have a lift? Could I have call you? Could I help you?			Cotton seed oil Cotton seed oil Cotton Shooter Cotton shrub cotton spinning cotton stainer cotton stainer cotton stainers Cotton Stalk Puller cotton staple Cotton State Cotton State Life Insurance cotton states Cotton States Life Insurance Company cotton strain Cotton Stripper cotton suture (4) cotton suture (4) cotton suture (4) Cotton swab cotton test cotton test cotton test Cotton Textile Research Unit Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council of India Cotton Textiles pour Matériaux Innovants cotton thistle cotton thistles cotton thistles cotton thistles cotton to Cotton Tree Foundation cotton underfur cotton up cotton up to Cotton Valley Rail Trail Club Cotton velvet cotton waste cotton wax cotton wilt cotton wool cotton wool Cotton Wool Appearance cotton wool disease cotton wool patch Cotton Wool Pledget Cotton Wool Sign Cotton Wool Spot Cotton worm Cotton's fracture Cotton's Patent Machine cotton, absorbent Cotton, Charles Cotton, Eugenie Cotton, Eugénie Cotton, George Edward Lynch

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