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vb. (en-past of: cotton to)
Usage examples of "cottoned to".
Nan had, it turned out, been the fourth woman the con artist had tricked into marrying him, but the first who had cottoned to him before he could make off with all her worldly possessions.
Incidentally, I had cottoned to Andy, who had handled himself throughout like a twohanded man.
Incidentally, I had cottoned to Andy, who had handled himself throughout like a two-handed man.
The local police, up where we disappeared from, they'd never cottoned to those Iranians much anyhow, see, a lot of them had diplomatic immunity and so could get away with lots of things that other folks couldn't, and then too they had more money than most of the folks lives up there and their countries was asshole-deep in the oil crisis, too.
But the mater cottoned to him at once, took him on as secretaryyou know how she's always running a hundred societies?