high cotton n.
(orig. US black) the good life, the materially successful life.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘A Yankee ... on Texas Speech’ in AS XX:2 Apr. 83: That fellah sure thought he was in high cotton. | |
| Great Santini (1977) 426: We accidently stepped into high cotton back there. This is a real chance to pick up a little cash dough. | |
| Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 217: This is pretty tall cotton for a guy that used to work the streets around Southern substation. | |
| Green River Rising 255: If you can learn to live right in here [i.e.prison], back out in the world you walkin’ in high cotton. |
In phrases
(US) to live prosperously, to feel happy, to be important; euph. alternatives include fly in high cotton, live in high cotton, travel in high cotton.
| , | | DAS. |
| No Beast So Fierce 130: We’ll be shittin’ in tall cotton soon as I make a score. | |
| Animal Factory 119: I stayed out four years last time, stealing every day. I shit in tall cotton the whole four years. | |
| Maledicta IX 160: They have not adopted U. S. city nigger use of country nigger expressions such as shit in high cotton. | |
| Homeboy 26: ‘Shittin in tall cotton,’ was the style to which the Woppa [...] was accustomed. | |
| Another Day in Paradise 46: Alarm’s a piece of cake, you’re in, and we’re shitting in tall cotton. | |
| ‘Giganthomachy’ in Knockemstiff 63: [C]ompared to what William and his sister, Lucy, had to go through, I was [...] shittin’ in high cotton. | |
| Razorblade Tears 272: ‘We still staying in that hotel. It’s pretty fancy. Like you would say, “it’s like shitting in high cotton”’. |