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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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- mess around
- piss off
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- take away
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- wail on
- all hell breaks loose
- and then some
- be of two minds
- catch flies
- common-or-garden
- dark horse
- fresh legs
- get it
- get one's claws into
- gray area
- honest-to-goodness
- in heaven's name
- in touch
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- let her rip
- make fun of
- mind one's own business
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- nuts and bolts
- on the horn
- out of line
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- out of this world
- pump iron
- put the clock back
- quarter past
- quick-and-dirty
- ride shotgun
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