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minus-square@idiomaddictlinkEnglish5•2 months agoI swear I do more than correct idioms, but I think you mean “cotton on,” which means to come to understand. To “cotton to” something is to come to like it. They’re bizarrely similar, so it’s easy to mistake.
minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish6•edit-22 months agolmao, username checks out! I’ll change it, thank you! Looked it up, this is probably what I meant. How bizarre that both combined mean what I meant, but ‘to’ alone has an entirely different meaning.
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I swear I do more than correct idioms, but I think you mean “cotton on,” which means to come to understand. To “cotton to” something is to come to like it. They’re bizarrely similar, so it’s easy to mistake.
lmao, username checks out! I’ll change it, thank you!
Looked it up, this is probably what I meant. How bizarre that both combined mean what I meant, but ‘to’ alone has an entirely different meaning.