Cotton Phrases

Phrases

• A String Of Pearls (Glenn Miller tune)
• Air your dirty linen in public
• America lives in Dacron (Dacron Fabric advertising slogan)
• America's freedom fabric (Dacron advertising slogan)
• Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Bless his/her cotton socks
• Corduory road (a road that is ridged and furrowed like the fabric)
• Cottoned on
• Cut the cord
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Dancing pleats that won't sit out (Orlon Fabric advertising slogan)
• Dirty linen
• Double denim (denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket)
• Dyed in the wool
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Fibre art (Artwork consisting of natural or synthetic fibres)
• Got the world on a string
• Hanging by a thread
• Have a second string to your bow have
• How long is a piece of string?
• In high cotton
• Like a puppet on a string
• Live life in Comfort (Comfort fabric softener advertising slogan)
• Lose the thread
• Material Girl (Madonna song)
• Moral fibre
• More than one string to your bow
• Pull the wool over someone's eyes
• Softness is a thing called Comfort (Comfort fabric conditioner advertising slogan)
• Source material
• String along
• String someone along
• The Cotton State (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
• Tote that bale
• Wait just a cotton picking minute
• Wash your dirty linen in public
• Weave your own sandals
• What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
• Yarn bombing (Adorning street furntiure and buildings with knitted items as a form of graffiti)