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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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- stand up
- start up
- take off
- take over
- arse about face
- assault and battery
- at a loss for words
- at the ready
- at will
- beauty sleep
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- drop a dime
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- frog in one's throat
- get busy
- give somebody an earful
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- go without saying
- half a mind
- hand in hand
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- in black and white
- in one hell of a hurry
- keep one on one's toes
- kindred soul
- low-hanging fruit
- lower the boom
- make fun of
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- middle ground
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