"cotton on" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶助詞(on)的英語動詞短語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語動詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語動詞短語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cottons on",
      "raw_tags": [
        "第三人稱單數簡單現在時"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cottoning on",
      "raw_tags": [
        "現在分詞"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cottoned on",
      "raw_tags": [
        "一般過去時及過去分詞"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英语",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "cotton to"
    },
    {
      "word": "cotton on to"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 30, Rowena Mason, “Dominic Cummings said Tory MPs do not care about poor people or NHS”, 出自 The Guardian:",
          "text": "“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.”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 July 9, Annie Lowrey, “Open Your Mind to Unicorn Meat”, 出自 The Atlantic:",
          "text": "In the late aughts, a number of entrepreneurs cottoned on to the idea of reducing emissions by producing fake meat that carnivores could love."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "理解"
      ],
      "id": "zh-cotton_on-en-verb-XLU-PeIC",
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "理解",
      "word": "glom on"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cotton on"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "帶助詞(on)的英語動詞短語",
    "英語動詞",
    "英語動詞短語",
    "英語詞元"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cottons on",
      "raw_tags": [
        "第三人稱單數簡單現在時"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cottoning on",
      "raw_tags": [
        "現在分詞"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cottoned on",
      "raw_tags": [
        "一般過去時及過去分詞"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英语",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "cotton to"
    },
    {
      "word": "cotton on to"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 30, Rowena Mason, “Dominic Cummings said Tory MPs do not care about poor people or NHS”, 出自 The Guardian:",
          "text": "“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.”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 July 9, Annie Lowrey, “Open Your Mind to Unicorn Meat”, 出自 The Atlantic:",
          "text": "In the late aughts, a number of entrepreneurs cottoned on to the idea of reducing emissions by producing fake meat that carnivores could love."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "理解"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "理解",
      "word": "glom on"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cotton on"
}