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corked up
adjective as in restrained
Example Sentences
I corked up the Fundador bottle and gave it to the bartender.
“Cork” was used to evoke “the real agony of the unprepared student,” who, when called on in class, “sitteth and openeth not his mouth, even as a bottle that is corked up.”
The absence of a sympathetic, compatriotic, intelligent spirit, like yours, is my greatest deprivation here, and everything is corked up.'
I shall explode if I keep it corked up inside of me.”
The neat-herd king forthwith corked up the phial, and the ghost could not get out.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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