A Cotton Picken Minute

A Cotton Picken Minute Ice Breakers button museum
Category
Ice Breakers
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A Cotton Picken Minute button back Ice Breakers
Text on Button JUST A COTTON PICKEN MINUTE
Image Description

Black text and text with a red body and black outline on a red background. 
Curl Text JAPAN
Back Style
Safety pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
3 1/8 inch
Additional Information

The phrase "cotton-picking," sometimes spelled as "cotton-picken" or "cotton-pickin'" to signify a dialect, is used as an intensifier to describe something that is unpleasant or troublesome or of little value. The idiom arose in the southern U.S. states sometime during the 1700 among slaves. 

Bugs Bunny may have popularized the phrase "Wait just a cotton-picking minute" and fixed it to our language. Here's an example in Bully for Bugs, 1953: "Just a cotton-pickin' minute, this don't look like the Coachella Valley to me!"
Catalog ID IB0369