shoot bolt



shoot your bolt

to use all your energy trying to do something, so that you do not have enough energy left to finish it (never in continuous tenses) By the end of the third lap it was obvious that she had shot her bolt, and the Canadian runner took the lead.
See also: bolt, shoot

shoot (one's) bolt

Slang
To do all within one's power; exhaust all of one's resources or capabilities.
See also: bolt, shoot

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Johannayo-HAH-nah (German), yo-HAHN-nah (Danish, Dutch), YO-hahn-nah (Finnish)German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, English, Late Roman
Ziya-Arabic
Lujza-Hungarian
Phunihel-Biblical Latin
GÉRald-French
Hanley['hænli]