The most common use of this phrase is to bottle up emotions. A therapist might advise you to stop bottling up your sadness and talk about it. In both of these cases, the speakers are talking about sharing and talking about feelings rather than hiding them.
In this example, someone tries to keep his emotion to himself, but, eventually, he needs to tell someone. Root of all evil. Ethical conundrums. This sporting life. Stage and screen. Birds and the bees. Cath Bennett, Deptford, London In cockney rhyming slang, "bottle" means "arse" bottle and glass. Originally, you would "lose your bottle" - i. This has been shortened down to just "bottle it". Paul Wright, Rochford It MAY have originated in Italy as the provincial phrase "ma gavte la nata" spelling questionable, sorry - put a cork in it or, as we tend to say today, fuhgedabout it!
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