bottle it

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#1·11h ago

To suppress an action or expression, especially when due to lack of courage.

Origin: From Cockney rhyming slang bottle and glass, originally meaning arse. ''lose one's nerve was vulgarly lose one's arse, euphemised to lose one's bottle, clipped to bottle'' and subsequently given a dummy pronoun. See bottle. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·11h ago

To lose one's nerve.

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#3·11h ago

To run away, especially when due to lack of courage.

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