to not do something because you do not feel brave enough
Greg bent down and hauled a bottle out of the wine rack in the corner.
She took the whiskey bottle out of my hand as she spoke and drinking from it, passed a mouthful of the booze onto Alice.
She was getting a bottle out of a crate of bottom-of-the-range Bulgarian wine that was sitting by the kitchen door.
bottles out
bottling out
bottled out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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