cotton on phrasal verb informal ( see also ↑ cotton )
to begin to understand something ⇨ realize :
It took me a while to cotton on.
cotton on to
Sarah soon cottoned on to what he was trying to do.
cotton on phrasal verb informal ( see also ↑ cotton )
to begin to understand something ⇨ realize :
It took me a while to cotton on.
cotton on to
Sarah soon cottoned on to what he was trying to do.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Longman - Словарь современного английского языка. 2012