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bottle out

verb

Definitions

  1. To fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage or nerve

    To fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage or nerve; to run away or back down from a contest or challenge.

    • I had really wanted to dive off the 10-metre platform, but in the end I bottled out.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bottle out. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA