单词 | bottle up |
释义 | bottle upSEE SYNONYMS FOR bottle up ON THESAURUS.COM verb (tr, adverb)to restrain (powerful emotion) to keep (an army or other force) contained or trappedthe French fleet was bottled up in Le Havre Words nearby bottle upbottle party, bottler, bottle shop, bottle tree, bottle turning, bottle up, bottlewasher, bottom, bottom bolt, bottom break, bottom dead centre Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with bottle upbottle up 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] 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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