High Cotton: Noun, Adjective; {US, slang, idiomatic}; the best of times; a time of well being; well off, especially in terms of happiness (from the notion of a well developed high cotton crop that one would not need to bend over to pick, used in the Southern U.S. since the 1920's)"high cotton" meant that the crops were good and the prices, likewise, were better
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Winston Churchill
From: Huckleberry Philosophy: "Southern roots with an open-minded soul."
So obviously you know. I love it.
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