Bottling It

[TBWG]

Hi

Seems Gordon Brown is having second thoughts about going to the polls.

All news reports refer to him as "Bottling It" now I know what it implies, but what's a bottle got to do with it and where does the phrase originate from.

I am familiar with most cockney rhymning slang but this is one I have never been able to figure out and have yet to come across somebody who can explain it.

Any ideas

TBWG

Just to give it a Thai connection, I hear Thaksin is "bottling it" re coming back to Thailand to "Face the music" H'mmm now where did that come from

[londonthai]

it's not cockney - it's a colloquial expression originating probably from wine production or beer brewing (allowing them to mature)

[xyborg]

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Maybe the same as "hitting the bottle" ie getting drunk .

[TBWG]

it's not cockney - it's a colloquial expression originating probably from wine production or beer brewing (allowing them to mature)

Maybe, but how does that apply to Brown not wanting to go to the polls, also I don't see how it fits in with someone loosing their bottle in trying to avoid confrontation?

TBWG

[Tingnongnoi]

? the cockney slang for Arse is Aris from Aristotle, which rhymes with bottle and bottle and glass= arse. Maybe it comes for bottle and glass =arse. Lost his bottle= lost his arse or his arse has fallen out?

[coldcrush]

bottle - courage, balls. eg "he lost his bottle", "he bottled out", "he's got a lot of bottle". The most common explanation of this term is that it comes from the Rhyming Slang 'bottle and glass' - 'arse'. ie. To loose ones bottle, to loose ones arse (incontinence produced by fear).

[londonthai]

Maybe, but how does that apply to Brown not wanting to go to the polls, also I don't see how it fits in with someone loosing their bottle in trying to avoid confrontation?

waiting with the decision, thinking it over, allowing to mature the idea.

loosing bottle is yet another expression not connected with bottling it

[TBWG]

bottle - courage, balls. eg "he lost his bottle", "he bottled out", "he's got a lot of bottle". The most common explanation of this term is that it comes from the Rhyming Slang 'bottle and glass' - 'arse'. ie. To loose ones bottle, to loose ones arse (incontinence produced by fear).

I think in this instance it is being used to say Brown has lost his nerve as in "lost his bottle", as opposed to bottling it up for the future.

Whatever he is a "big girls blouse" who's lost his nerve.

TBWG

[tourleadersi]

One theory is that it comes from the rhyming slang 'bottle and glass' ie 'ar#e' and therefore to bottle it is is to lose your ar#e.

Of course that could be a complete load of Jackson Pollocks though!

[tuky]

can anyone point out how this is related to Thailand?

[nidge]

can anyone point out how this is related to Thailand?

simple really. Buy a bottle, (glass one), of pepsi etc and there is a refund on it. So you never want to lose your bottle in thailand.

[tuky]

can anyone point out how this is related to Thailand?

simple really. Buy a bottle, (glass one), of pepsi etc and there is a refund on it. So you never want to lose your bottle in thailand.

And I guess most beer comes in a Brown Bottle...

Don't you find it strange that folks will come on to a Thailand forum and want to talk about UK stuff?

[intumult]

Maybe a True Blue with no one else to talk politics with

[kpeanut]

Don't you find it strange that folks will come on to a Thailand forum and want to talk about UK stuff?

No

[Tywais]

Not Thailand or SEA related.

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