to stop yourself from showing negative emotions like anger and disappointment, especially over a long period, so that these feelings develop in a harmful way
But don't put your life on hold in hope or bottle up your feelings.
But the tears just felt like the most amazing release for all the grief, sadness and pain I'd bottled up for years.
He bottled up his distress for decades, a classic migraine trigger.
The governess can no longer bottle up her feelings in the third episode of the four-part series and admits her true feelings for Rochester.
private resentments that she had bottled up for ten years
bottles up
bottling up
bottled up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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