bottle it

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To suppress an action or expression, especially when due to lack of courage. Cockney,UK,informal,slang
  2. To lose one's nerve. Cockney,UK,informal,slang
  3. To run away, especially when due to lack of courage. Cockney,UK,informal,slang
  4. To fail in an embarrassing way in a crucial situation, especially due to nerves. Cockney,UK,especially,informal,slang
    — For a while, it was a three-horse race and, if anything, it looked like José Mourinho's Chelsea were the team to beat. Chelsea bottled it, Liverpool beat Manchester City and the title was theirs to lose ... which they did in that match against Chelsea.

词形变化

bottles it present,singular,third-person bottling it participle,present bottled it participle,past bottled it past

词汇关系

相关词
bottle out

词源

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.
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