bottle out



bottle out

To lose one's nerve, courage, or resolve to undertake something. Primarily heard in UK. I wanted to ask Steve on a date, but I bottled out at the last minute.
See also: bottle, out

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
'Adinah-Biblical Hebrew
Brewster['bru:stə]
Filips-Latvian
Edite-Portuguese
Dorotheos-Greek, Late Greek
Mihael-Slovene, Croatian