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bottle up
verb
- to restrain (powerful emotion)
- to keep (an army or other force) contained or trapped
the French fleet was bottled up in Le Havre
Idioms and Phrases
Repress, contain, hold back; also, confine or trap. For example, The psychiatrist said Eve had been bottling up her anger for years , or The accident bottled up traffic for miles . This idiom likens other kinds of restraint to liquid being contained in a bottle. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Vanessa Nygaard recognized that rare bit of frustration, bottled up within.
But the simple act of interacting with another human rather than bottling up your fears can also bring a much-needed reprieve.
"All of those emotions from the last nine months I think were bottled up in there," she said.
For some, trying to suppress their tics in class led to them bottling up their anxiety and avoiding school entirely.
Which is exactly why Trump will stop at nothing to try to keep it bottled up.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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