bottle up

Language: en

Meaning: To put into bottles.; To prevent (enemyvessels) from leaving ananchorage.1990, Alan Evans,Orphans of the Storm, London:Coronet Books,→ISBN,page136:Paul Brunner spoke over his shoulder, "In the last war the cruiserKönigsberghid in an African river and made her repairs." / Kurt answered, "Yes, sir, but she didn't get out again. The Royal Navybottled her upand finally destroyed her."; (idiomatic)To keepsuppressedandhidden.Emotions are oftenbottled uprather than dealt with, which can lead to stress in later life.1975December 27, “Anti-Gay Bill on the Move”, inGay Community News, volume 3, number26, page 3:Pennsylvania gay activists were taken by surprise at the bill's assignment to the Labor Relations Committee. They had hoped to "bottle up" the bill in another House committee but an early poll of Labor Relations members indicates that attempts to stop the bill may now be more difficult.1990,Ronald Reagan,[Robert Lindsey],An American Life, New York, N.Y.[…]:Pocket Books,→ISBN,page373:Those brave students who laid down their lives against the tanks of Tiananmen Square confirmed what I'd always believed: that no totalitarian society canbottle upthe instinctive drive of men and women to be free, and that once you give a captive people a little freedom, they'll demand more.1985December 7, Merrill Symonds, “Personal advvertisement”, inGay Community News, volume13, number21, page12:Young man in need of someone to share all thisbottled uplove with.; (informal)To comprehensivelydefeat.2011,Robin Waterfield,Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire, Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page39:Leosthenes defeated Antipater in battle—the first defeat of a Macedonian army for thirty years—andbottled him upin the town of Lamia.; (sports,slang)To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action.2023March 25, “San Diego State ousts Alabama as all four No. 1 seeds fall short of Elite 8 for 1st time”, inCBC News‎[1], archived fromthe originalon8 April 2023:Darrion Trammell and San Diego State used a dominant defensive performance to knock top overall seed Alabama out of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night,bottling upAll-America freshman Brandon Miller in a 71-64 victory in the Sweet 16.2013June 13, Nick Friedell, “Spoelstra, Heat bow out with 'no regrets on our end'”, inABC News‎[2], archived fromthe originalon14 June 2023:Arguably the most important sequence of the game came with less than 30 seconds to play and the Nuggets clinging to a 90-89 lead. Butler drove to the rim but gotbottled upin the post by Murray and Jokic then tried to find teammate Max Strus in the corner, but the ball was stolen by Nuggets swingman Kentavious Caldwell-Pope -- and the Heat were forced to foul.

Examples:

EN: Sure, break bottle up three ways.
ES: Claro. Mejor rompamos esta botella.
EN: I know, but I'd made a new bottle up for him that very morning.
ES: Lo sé, pero yo le había preparado una botella nueva esa misma mañana.
EN: They've got factories, shipyards, coal mines... and a fleet to bottle up our harbors and starve us to death.
ES: Tienen fábricas, astilleros, minas y pueden bloquear nuestros puertos.
EN: First they bottle up the biggest scoop of the year, then when they get good and ready they...
ES: Primero no dan la noticia más importante del año... y luego se vuelven buenos y listo, ellos...
EN: I brought that bottle up here to make you feel cheap.
ES: Traje esa botella para que te avergonzaras.
EN: If it was any man but him, I'd say he keeps a bottle up there in that tower room.
ES: Si fuera otro, diría que está bebiendo.
EN: You can't bottle up all that energy very long. No?
ES: No podrá detener esa energía durante mucho tiempo.
EN: "Found a whiskey bottle up here, by the road where those tracks cross the center."
ES: He encontrado una botella de whisky junto a la carretera.
EN: - He's got a bottle up there with him.
ES: Tiene una botella en sus manos.
EN: -Put the bottle up on top.
ES: - Pon la botella arriba del todo.
EN: Would you hold that bottle up, miss?
ES: Sostenga en alto la botella, por favor.
EN: Bobby, get us a bottle up here.
ES: Tráenos una botella, Bobby.
EN: (STUTTERING) I just divided the bottle up between them.
ES: - Dividí el frasco entre ellos.
EN: Well, I guess that's what happens when you bottle up your emotions for so many years.
ES: Bueno, supongo que eso es lo que pasa, cuando reprimes tus emociones por tantos años.
EN: Apollonius was a great sage from antiquity. He discovered how to bottle up time.
ES: Apolonio era un gran sabio de antaño que había encontrado el medio de poner el tiempo en una botella.

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