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Significados de cotton up en inglés

Ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior.

Uso de cotton up en inglés
1
She stuffed cotton up her nose and took two Tylenol with codeine.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
2
It took several men to roll a single bale of cotton up the gangway.
Wench: a novel
3
I can roll the cotton up on wooden toothpicks and peddle them as sterile swabs.
Catch-22
4
Well, I git the drop on him, and then you begin to cotton up to him right away.
Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
5
Owen saw the success of the woolen-mill, and declared that to bring cotton up by steamboat from the South would be easy.
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