【明報專訊】◆bottle

It can mean "courage".

e.g. It took him a lot of bottle to hold his dream girl's hand.

◆let the genie out of the bottle

It means to let something happen and it is impossible to stop that afterwards.

e.g. Voting for Eason was letting the genie out of the bottle.

◆bottle out

It means not to do something as decided.

e.g. It was Bill's turn to perform but he bottled out and locked himself up in a toilet cubicle.

[Smarties' Power English 第251期]