Bottle–up

a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.
the contents of such a container; as much as such a container contains:
a bottle of wine.
bottled cow’s milk, milk formulas, or substitute mixtures given to infants instead of mother’s milk:
raised on the bottle.
the bottle, intoxicating beverages; liquor:
He became addicted to the bottle.
to put into or seal in a bottle:
to bottle grape juice.
British. to preserve (fruit or vegetables) by heating to a sufficient temperature and then sealing in a jar.
bottle up,

to repress, control, or restrain:
He kept all of his anger bottled up inside him.
to enclose or entrap:
Traffic was bottled up in the tunnel.

hit the bottle, Slang. to drink alcohol to excess often or habitually.
Historical Examples

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring
The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic’s Talbot Baines Reed
The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis
Jack of Both Sides Florence Coombe
On the Kentucky Frontier James Otis
Deadly City Paul W. Fairman
Somehow Good William de Morgan
McAllister and His Double Arthur Train
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines Andrew Ure
Cudjo’s Cave J. T. Trowbridge

verb (transitive, adverb)
to restrain (powerful emotion)
to keep (an army or other force) contained or trapped: the French fleet was bottled up in Le Havre
noun

a vessel, often of glass and typically cylindrical with a narrow neck that can be closed with a cap or cork, for containing liquids
(as modifier): a bottle rack

Also called bottleful. the amount such a vessel will hold

a container equipped with a teat that holds a baby’s milk or other liquid; nursing bottle
the contents of such a container: the baby drank his bottle

short for magnetic bottle
(Brit, slang) nerve; courage (esp in the phrase lose one’s bottle)
(Brit, slang) money collected by street entertainers or buskers
(Austral, slang) full bottle, well-informed and enthusiastic about something
(informal) the bottle, drinking of alcohol, esp to excess
verb (transitive)
to put or place (wine, beer, jam, etc) in a bottle or bottles
to store (gas) in a portable container under pressure
(slang) to injure by thrusting a broken bottle into (a person)
(Brit, slang) (of a busker) to collect money from the bystanders
noun
(dialect) a bundle, esp of hay
n.
v.

A bottle or bottle’s amount of liquor; jug: He had a bottle on him (late 1600s+)
A glass insulator for electric or communications lines (1900s+ Line repairers)
A vacuum tube (1920s+ Radio operators)

Repress, contain, hold back; also, confine or trap. For example, The psychiatrist said Eve had been bottling up her anger for years, or The accident bottled up traffic for miles. This idiom likens other kinds of restraint to liquid being contained in a bottle. [ Mid-1800s ]
In addition to the idiom beginning with
bottle