Bottle

Learning English Conversations

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Language Learning, Education

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🗓️ 10 January 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Use this phrase involving bottles when you’re too afraid to do something

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English we speak.
0:09.0	From BBC learning English.
0:12.0	So, big presentation today, Faye Faye. How you feeling?
0:15.8	Yeah, I'm okay, Neil. All prepared. I do feel a bit nervous. I just need to remind myself to slow down and take a sip of water when I feel anxious.
0:26.7	Good plan.
0:27.7	Okay, I'll see you later.
0:29.0	Good luck.
0:30.0	Hey, so how did it go? Not great. What happened? You lost your bottle?
0:39.2	Actually I took a glass of water. Ah, right. You know the phrase to lose your bottle means to lose your confidence and fail to do something
0:48.5	or decide not to do it?
0:50.0	Ah, thanks for teaching me this phrase when I'm feeling awful.
0:54.0	Yeah, sorry.
0:56.0	You can also simply say to bottle it, which means to lose your courage and fail to do something.
1:02.0	Examples time.
1:05.0	He was going to ask his girlfriend to marry him but lost his bottle at the last minute. She
1:10.0	asked him instead.
1:12.0	I thought about painting my friend. She asked him instead.
1:20.0	I thought about painting my front door bright green, but I bottled it. I went for a conservative grey instead.
1:25.0	Anyway, Neil, aren't you giving a presentation this afternoon? I was going to.
1:27.0	You mean you're not going to do it now?
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