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Cotton on

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  1. 1
    To realize; come to understand. intransitive

    "“That is what most people in the country have thought about the Tory party for decades. […] Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don’t care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on to that.”"

  2. 2
    understand, usually after some initial difficulty wordnet

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