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Shoot one's bolt
Verb
Definitions
1.
Verb
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."
2.
Verb
Of a male, to ejaculate.
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