Search Result for "cotton on":
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. understand, usually after some initial difficulty;
- Example: "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"
[syn: catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cotton on
    v 1: understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She
         didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally
         caught on" [syn: catch on, get wise, get onto,
         tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it]