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spitting cotton or spittin' cotton	Very thirsty. Used in the Southern USA.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tom, Dick or Harry	Anybody or everybody; random or unknown people.	Rate it: (2.33 / 3 votes)
Every Tom, Dick, and Harry	Anyone ordinary; every possible person	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cotton-picking	Describes a person who tends to become involved in matters outside of his area of concern.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
shittin in high cotton	Living well, often above one's means	Rate it: (4.00 / 3 votes)
cotton to	To like; approve of, accept, or tolerate.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
bless someone's cotton socks	Used to express affection toward the named person.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cotton on	To realize; come to understand.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cotton on to	To come to know or understand.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cotton-picking	The harvesting of cotton	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cotton-picking	An intensifier, like "darn", used for emphasis or to signify that something is of little value.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
high cotton	The best of times; a time of well being.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
out of one's cotton-picking mind	Synonym of out of one's mind.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
throw dirt enough, and some will stick	If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
hunger is a good sauce	(dated) Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.1854, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, Vol. XXVI, Punch Publications Ltd., page 74:His bread and cheese were somewhat dry, to be sure; his ale had become flat, and considerably warmer than was desirable; but hunger is a good sauce, and thirst is not particular.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
le tiers et le quart	Tom, Dick, and Harry.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
winkle out	Tom managed to winkle the truth out of John eventually.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)