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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
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- draw out
- draw out
- knock out
- knuckle down
- latch onto
- mock up
- pull up
- stand up
- talk down
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- a dime's worth
- above the law
- as if
- been to the rodeo
- big cheese
- call it a day
- catch-as-catch-can
- common-or-garden
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- dead duck
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- early bath
- eat one's hat
- family jewels
- first port of call
- for the time being
- get it on
- go up in smoke
- good job
- goose is cooked
- half a mind
- hang out one's shingle
- have other fish to fry
- hit a snag
- hold your fire
- in heaven's name
- in line
- in one hell of a hurry
- in touch
- keep quiet
- lucky break
- magic bullet
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