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high cotton

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The term "high cotton" or "tall cotton" originates from the rural farming community in the antebellum (pre-Civil War) South when "high cotton" meant that the crops were good and the prices were, too. The term has generalized to mean one is doing well or is successful.

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    high cotton (uncountable)

    1. (US, Southern US, slang, idiomatic) The best of times; a time of well being.
      We're in high cotton now.

    参照

    1. ^ “Idions: "Tall cotton"”, in TheFreeDictionary.com‎, 2013 June 14 (last accessed)
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