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.

shoot (one's) bolt

Slang

To do all within one's power; exhaust all of one's resources or capabilities.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Johanna	yo-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]