The phrase "cotton up" is not commonly used in written English and may sound unusual or outdated. It is more commonly used in spoken language or colloquial settings. However, it can still be used in written English in a more informal or conversational context. Example: "I'm trying to cotton up to my boss in hopes of getting a promotion."
Bed-wetters wash their own sheets: "I quite liked plunging the soggy yellow cotton up and down in the enormous sinks, watching as the piss blended with then disappeared into the warm, soapy water".
It's not easy to pitch when you have cotton up there".
The U.S.D.A. said growers planned to plant 53.8 million acres of wheat, the smallest since 1970, and 10.5 million acres of cotton, up 15 percent from last year when plantings fell to a 25-year low.
GADC sells the cotton up a fully traceable supply chain to Cotonea, a German company which makes apparel and home goods from Okumu's cotton.
Using familiarization discrimination paradigm it has been observed that cotton-up tamarins can successfully discriminate between 4 and 6 syllables (2∶3 ratio) but not between 4 and 5, suggesting that the limit of large number discrimination in monkeys, as in human infants, is set by the numerical ratio.
Last year Willoughby and Cotton teamed up for a TV ad for Nintendo DS game Girl Band.
Last year governments around the world gave support for almost three-quarters of all cotton produced, up from half five years ago.
They had huge trashcans filled with water and dye, and dyed thousands of yards of cotton, ending up covered in colored dye.
"It's about elegance," he said, adding that there is nothing elegant about yards of cotton bunched up under your coat.
Cotton makes up a third of fibre consumption in the textile industry, according to a global apparel fibre consumption report (pdf) published in 2013.
These days Burleson knows exactly where his cotton ends up – in T-shirts manufactured at TS Designs, a factory 130 miles away in Burlington, North Carolina.
