Cotton On

What is Cotton On?


1.

To realize or catch on to something - usually something in the past which you should have figured out at the time but didn't; Scottish slang.

She was giving all kinds of hints that she was interested in me, but I just didn't cotton on until I got home.

See eureka, realization, oblivious


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