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2cr3nd4 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

What does "bottle" mean?

I saw a comment in football as below. What does the word "bottle" mean in that sentence?

The team played well in the first half but after they scored we bottled it. Even the manager couldn't look when we refused to attack and we were very lucky at the end.
  

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It means 'we lost our nerve and stopped trying'.

  • It means 'we lost our nerve and stopped trying'.
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It means 'we lost our nerve and stopped trying'.

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