bottle up feelings, to
bottle up feelings, to
To hold one’s emotions under tight control. This metaphor for containing oneself dates from the mid-nineteenth century, although by the early 1600s the term “bottling up” had been transferred to containing things other than liquid in bottles (for example, “Vapours bottl’d up in cloudes,” T. Scott, 1622).
See also: bottle, up
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- cat got your tongue, has the
- turn over in one's grave, (enough to make one)
- way to a man's heart, the
- keep your eyes peeled/skinned
- past history
- more power to you/him/them
- cat that swallowed the canary, (look) like the
- bet one's bottom dollar, one can
- cold shoulder, to give/show the
- hear a pin drop, one/you could