Phr V
cotton on
cottons, cottoning, cottoned
cotton on
informal to begin to understand a situation or factI didn't know he was the spy and it took me a while to cotton on.
often + toI'd only just cottoned on to the fact that they were having a relationship.
cotton on
⇨ cotton on to; cotton on; cotton to
verb to form, or have, a liking or fancy for something or someone; to understand or come to understand
AUSTRALIA, 1907