She didn't do a 'cotton-picking' [='damned, darned'] thing all day.
It took a while, but they are finally starting to 'cotton on'.
He doesn't 'cotton to' the idea of having children.
(..) to create a crisis in Europe. Nation against nation. Under various pseudo names you bought, Schemed, Or murdered your way into numerous industries, Assuring none of it could be traced to you. Cotton, Opium, Steel. Now arms, Chemical weaponary all to be shipped across Europe in less than a week. (..)2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
(..) Do you like my spider's web? Is that what you call it? Follow that strand. Question? What does a scandal about an indian cotton tycoon, The overdose of a Chinese opium trader, Bombings in Strasbourg and Vienna, And the death of a steel magnate in America... all have in common? (..)2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows