bottle up
To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage.
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Our home brew spray ends up in the situation where picking the bottle up carries a significant bump in serum estradiol levels. Wondering if it’s worth printing a warning on it for those of a male persuasion. Or not…
Bottle up and explode over and over
Taking those steps forward. She walks away from this fight with something else to bottle up. And with the same cheery grin as her mask, moves ever onward. This is never resolved, not as long as she needs to fight.
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To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage.
Emotions are often bottled up rather than dealt with, which can lead to stress in later life.
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To put into bottles.
Paul Brunner spoke over his shoulder, "In the last war the cruiser Königsberg hid in an African river and made her repairs." / Kurt answered, "Yes, sir, but she didn't get out again. The Royal Navy bottled her up and finally destroyed her."
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(idiomatic) To keep suppressed and hidden.
Those brave students who laid down their lives against the tanks of Tiananmen Square confirmed what I'd always believed: that no totalitarian society can bottle up the instinctive drive of men and women to be free, and that once you give…
“Our home brew spray ends up in the situation where picking the bottle up carries a significant bump in serum estradiol levels. Wondering if it’s worth printing a warning on it for those of a male persuasion. Or not because lol.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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