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Idiom

bottle away

Meaning

To store up or stock up.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I bottle away extra food for the winter.”

“She likes to bottle away small amounts of money each month for her future travels.”

“Rather than expressing his frustrations, he chose to bottle away his emotions until they eventually surfaced as sudden, uncharacteristic outbursts.”

Examples

simple

“I bottle away extra food for the winter.”

contextual

“She likes to bottle away small amounts of money each month for her future travels.”

complex

“Rather than expressing his frustrations, he chose to bottle away his emotions until they eventually surfaced as sudden, uncharacteristic outbursts.”

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