drop your bundle

drop (one's) bundle

To experience heightened anxiety or begin to feel hopeless. Primarily heard in Australia, New Zealand. Don't drop your bundle—we'll find a solution to this problem.
See also: bundle, drop
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

drop your bundle

mainly AUSTRALIAN, INFORMAL
If someone drops their bundle, they lose all hope or lose control of their emotions. At 25-6 University were losing badly, but to their credit they did not drop their bundle. If I had dropped my bundle, it would have hurt a lot of people.
See also: bundle, drop
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

drop your bundle

panic or lose one's self-control. Australian & New Zealand informal
This expression comes from an obsolete sense of bundle meaning ‘swag’ or ‘a traveller's or miner's bundle of personal belongings’.
See also: bundle, drop
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • drop (one's) bundle
  • go a bundle on
  • not go a bundle on (something)
  • not go a bundle on somebody/something
  • hopeless
  • hopeless at
  • hopeless at (something)
  • blow a bundle
  • drop a bundle on something
  • be better off dead
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