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cotton on

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    “That is what most people in the country have thought about the Tory party for decades. […] Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don’t care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on to that.”

    2019 July 30, Rowena Mason, “Dominic Cummings said Tory MPs do not care about poor people or NHS”, in The Guardian:

    In the late aughts, a number of entrepreneurs cottoned on to the idea of reducing emissions by producing fake meat that carnivores could love.

    2023 July 9, Annie Lowrey, “Open Your Mind to Unicorn Meat”, in The Atlantic:
词形与写法（3）
词形标注转写
cottons onthird-person · singular · present
cottoning onpresent · participle
cottoned onpast · participle · 簡單過去時
近义词（1）
glom on
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cotton tocotton on to

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