Слово англійською: bottle
Іменник
Переклад bottle українською: пля́шка (вина́ і т. д.), ріжок, флакон, пля́шечка, бутель
Детальний опис
- [countable] a glass or plastic container, usually round with straight sides and a narrow neck, used especially for storing liquids
- a wine/beer/milk/water bottle
- Put the top back on the bottle.
- a plastic/glass bottle
- To open the bottle, you twist and pull out the stopper.
- He threw his message in a bottle into the North Sea.
- [countable]
(also bottleful
/ˈbɑːtlfʊl/
)
the amount contained in a bottle- We drank a whole bottle of wine.
- She handed me a bottle of water.
the bottle
[singular] (informal) alcoholic drink- After his wife died, he really hit the bottle (= started drinking heavily).
[countable, usually singular] a bottle used to give milk to a baby; the milk from such a bottle (used instead of mother’s milk)- It's time for her bottle.
[uncountable] (British English, informal) courage or confidence, for example to do something that is dangerous or unpleasant synonym nerve- It took a lot of bottle to do that.
- I didn’t think she’d have the bottle to ask him.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French boteille, from medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of late Latin buttis ‘cask’.
Idioms let the genie out of the bottle
- to do something that has a big effect and after which it is very difficult or impossible to go back to how things were before
- When guns were invented, the genie was let out of the bottle.
This idiom can be expressed in various different ways. Other versions include the genie is out of the bottle and opposite form put the genie back in the bottle. Many people realized the genie was out of the bottle and that free music and movie downloads were here to stay. • The world has failed to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle.