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To fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage.
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I had really wanted to dive off the 10-meter platform, but in the end I bottled out.
Submitted on August 28, 2012
More phrases:
- bow out
- come across
- gunk up
- hold up
- kick back
- muck about
- piss off
- pull away
- rule out
- run over
- take over
- tumble to
- turn out
- baggage
- beauty sleep
- blaze a trail
- bright line
- catch flies
- cream of the crop
- cross someone's path
- do-or-die
- down-to-earth
- early bath
- elbow room
- even money
- fall off a truck
- fish or cut bait
- for the hell of it
- free-for-all
- full speed ahead
- go out of one's way
- gold mine
- gray area
- have a blast
- hit someone for six
- in a nutshell
- in black and white
- in order
- in the works
- kindred spirit
- let her rip
- long row to hoe
- off and on
- on a full stomach
- on hold
- on its merits
- out of one's depth
- out of order
- out of order
- out of the blue
- penny pincher
- play old harry
- point the finger at
- put the clock back
- raise a stink
- rough trot
- save face
- scare the pants off of
- second banana
- slip through the cracks
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