| 单词 | to lose one's bottle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lose one's bottle 11. colloquial (British and Irish English). Courage, confidence; spirit, nerve. Frequently in to lose one's bottle: to lose one's nerve. [Perhaps derived < no bottle at Phrases 7, although often associated with the rhyming slang term bottle and glass at sense 8.] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > [noun] elne888 bieldc890 daringc1374 coraiouste1382 inwit1382 courageousnessa1513 courage1540 couragie1556 valour1581 nerve1602 stoutheartednessa1683 noble-heartedness1836 lionheartedness1885 gut1893 gutsiness1893 bottle1958 the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > be nervous or uneasy [verb (intransitive)] > lose one's nerve to lose one's nerve1912 bug1952 to lose one's bottle1958 bottle1977 to bottle it1988 1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights 62 We all began to ask each other..why he hadn't made a dash for it. ‘What's the matter Frank, your bottle fallen out?’ 1965 Sunday Times 30 May 24/3 It's the worst that could be said about you, that you'd lost your bottle. 1969 It 4 July 11/2 You've gotta have a helluva lot of bottle to do something like that, and I believe that Morrison did it out of sheer contempt. 1982 A. Price Old ‘Vengeful’ vii. 114 Danny's real hard, and got a certain amount of bottle. 1996 D. Brimson & E. Brimson Everywhere we Go ix. 130 After a couple of slaps were dealt out to the others, most of them did a runner—no bottle, you see. 2015 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 6 Mar. (Features section) 31 What a shame the BBC lost their bottle when adapting JK Rowling's novel The Casual Vacancy. < as lemmas |
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