cott Idiom, Proverb

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.

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"

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.

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?

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]

Scottish

Scottish
the Scottish
the Scottish people