PHRASE EXPLAINED
Bless your cotton socks: An expression of endearment; dating from around 1905, ‘little cotton socks’ implies those of an infant and so suggests innocence or lack of guile in the person being so addressed.
Bless your cotton socks: An expression of endearment; dating from around 1905, ‘little cotton socks’ implies those of an infant and so suggests innocence or lack of guile in the person being so addressed.