bottle

chief cook and bottle-washer: seechief.

crack a bottle: seecrack.

have (or show) a lot of bottle have (or show) boldness or initiative. British informal

☞ Bottle in the sense 'courage, nerve' comes from bottle and glass. That is rhyming slang for arse, which itself came in 20th-century British slang to mean 'courage'. So if you have lost your bottle (in effect, 'lost your arse'), or your bottle has fallen out, your courage has failed you. The derived verb bottle out (or bottle it) means 'fail to do something as a result of losing your nerve'.

hit (or be on) the bottle start to drink alcohol heavily, especially in an attempt to escape from one's problems. informal

let the genie out of the bottle: seegenie.

词组	bottle
释义	bottle chief cook and bottle-washer: seechief. crack a bottle: seecrack. have (or show) a lot of bottle have (or show) boldness or initiative. British informal ☞ Bottle in the sense 'courage, nerve' comes from bottle and glass. That is rhyming slang for arse, which itself came in 20th-century British slang to mean 'courage'. So if you have lost your bottle (in effect, 'lost your arse'), or your bottle has fallen out, your courage has failed you. The derived verb bottle out (or bottle it) means 'fail to do something as a result of losing your nerve'. hit (or be on) the bottle start to drink alcohol heavily, especially in an attempt to escape from one's problems. informal let the genie out of the bottle: seegenie.
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