bottle up
Upper Intermediate (B2) neutral
To stop yourself from showing how you feel, and keep all your emotions locked inside yourself.
"She had been bottling up her grief for months before she finally broke down."
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able to basically bottle up the effect
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I've had that bottle up there forever,
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And lift the end of the bottle up.
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If you could bottle up that, you know, gene
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CNN 10 · 4:02
You're just going to place that bottle up over