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单词 bottle out
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bottle out

phrasal verb
If you bottle out, you lose your courage at the last moment and do not do something you intended to do.
[British, informal]
I haven't come all this way to bottle out. [VERB PARTICLE]
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bottle out in British English

verb
(intr, adverb) British slang
to lose one's nerve

Examples of 'bottle out' in a sentence
bottle out

She took the whiskey bottle out of my hand as she spoke and drinking from it, passed a mouthful of the booze onto Alice.
Clive Barker GALILEE (2001)
She was getting a bottle out of a crate of bottom-of-the-range Bulgarian wine that was sitting by the kitchen door.
Hugo Wilcken THE EXECUTION (2002)
(phrasal verb) 
I haven't come all this way to bottle out.
Synonyms
get cold feet
give up
withdraw
Troops withdrew from the country last March.
back out
I've already promised I'll go – I can't back out now.
cop out (slang)
chicken out (informal)
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Additional synonyms

in the sense of back out
Definition
to withdraw from (an agreement)
I've already promised I'll go – I can't back out now.
Synonyms
withdraw,
retire,
give up,
pull out,
retreat,
drop out,
renege,
cop out (slang),
chicken out (informal),
detach yourself
in the sense of withdraw
Definition
(of troops) to leave or be pulled back from the battleground
Troops withdrew from the country last March.
Synonyms
retreat,
go,
leave,
retire,
depart,
pull out,
fall back,
pull back,
back out,
back off,
cop out (slang),
disengage from

Nearby words of
bottle out

  • bother
  • bothersome
  • bottle
  • bottle out
  • bottle shop
  • bottle something up
  • bottle store

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