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cottons to
vb. (en-third-person singular of: cotton to)
Usage examples of "cottons to".
She must resemble a character in one of those movie scenes where the deceived cowboy cottons to the truth and overturns the poker table on the dishonest itinerant cardshark, except that she was playing the drama in slow motion, as in a Western underwater.
Drenched to the skin, shivering often in the cold rain that moulded and plastered thin cottons to arms and bodies and legs, they were happy.
Now, everyone back to posts, before somebody cottons to the fact that this looks like a council of war.