Emotions & feelings
bottle something up
hide your feelings
To keep your feelings inside instead of talking about or expressing them.
Hear it in real life
You seem upset today.
I know. I have a habit of bottling things up.
Bottling your feelings up can make a small problem feel much worse.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I bottle my feelings.
Say: I bottle my feelings up.
With an object, "bottle up" can be split, but the object cannot go after "up."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
bottle something up; bottle your feelings up
Your turn: say it out loud
Bottling your feelings up can make a small problem feel much worse.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
bottle something up
hide your feelings
“Bottling your feelings up can make a small problem feel much worse.”
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