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shoot one's bolt (third-person singular simple present shoots one's bolt, present participle shooting one's bolt, simple past and past participle shot one's bolt)

  1. (idiomatic) To use up one's resources, especially a singular one or one not readily restored.
    We were playing checkers and, although I'd started off well, I seemed to have shot my bolt too soon.

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