In High Cotton Edit Meaning

1.

To have a lot of money. Prominently featured in the country-western song "High Cotton" by Alabama

When we were kids, we thought we were in high cotton if we had a dollar.

See LB

2.

recently come into very good circumstances

He's in high cotton now with the new job.

3.

well off, especially in terms of happiness or wealth(from the notion of a well developed high cotton crop that one would not need to bend over to pick, used in the Southern U.S. since the 1920)

He was in high cotton by the time he retired.

See high cotton, in tall cotton