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Significados de cotton up em inglês

Ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior.

        Uso de cotton up em inglês
        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.
        Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 / Little J...