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To: Amore

Nope--"bottle" is Cockney slang for heart or guts; that is, toughness.


1,601 posted on 07/07/2005 5:00:14 AM PDT by Pharmboy (There is no positive correlation between the ability to write, act, sing or dance and being right)
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To: Pharmboy

I've always read the British expression as "bottom," which I assumed was a reference to the good, proper riding of a horse, sort of like having "a good seat."


1,648 posted on 07/07/2005 5:03:51 AM PDT by Amore (First, let's kill all the lawyers!)
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To: Pharmboy
Nope--"bottle" is Cockney slang for heart or guts; that is, toughness.

As in courage in a bottle?

3,706 posted on 07/07/2005 2:09:12 PM PDT by null and void (You'll learn more on FR by accident, than other places by design)
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