- bottle and glass
- nBritisharse. The rhyming slang phrase, still heard in 2004, probably dates back to the 1960s, if not earlier. It is also the ori-gin of the better-known bottle, meaning courage.
Contemporary slang . 2014.
bottle and glass
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