Talk:buy cotton

RFV discussion: May–June 2017

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buy cotton

I, too, encountered the idiom in To kill a mockingbird; but I found it nowhere else.__Gamren (talk) 08:12, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

What I do find is a lot about speculation by buying and selling cotton, which is probably where this comes from, in which case it's not really an idiom at all. Kiwima (talk) 20:22, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 22:40, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

This euphemism reminds me of all those who have been "independent consultants" during hard times. DCDuring (talk) 05:14, 14 June 2017 (UTC)