[Ads-l] Knotted cotton

[Stephen Goranson]

I don't recognize it, but I wonder if it might help to know whether that was a compliment or an insult.

Stephen G.
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Subject: Knotted cotton

A message has come in to my World Wide Words site from a visitor who
asks about an expression used by his wife: "He's got muscles like a knot
in a piece of number one cotton". My research sources are very limited
these days and I can turn up no examples, let alone information on
origin. Does anybody recognise it?

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