shoot one's load
Finish too soon
To shoot one's load is to ejaculate.
The phrase extends to any situation where someone expends all their resources or energy at once: He shot his load in the first quarter and had nothing left for the second half.
The sexual origin makes it crude even in figurative use.
- ejaculateDischarge or exclaim suddenly
- orgasmPeak sexual pleasure
- climaxPoint of greatest intensity
- slangInformal in-group vocabulary
- locker room talkCrude speech among men
exhaustion · idiom · depletion · arousal · finality · expenditure · release · stimulation · double entendre · colloquialism · euphemism · discharge · vernacular · informal speech · culmination · emission · blow one's wad · libido
shoot one's loadhold back
Prevent forward movement
edge · abstain · refrain · hold off · deny oneself
shoot one's loadhold back
Prevent forward movement
keep one's powder dry · conserve · ration · pace oneself · bide one's time
shoot one's loadbite one's tongue
Refrain from speaking
hold one's fire · hold off · delay · keep one's powder dry · refrain
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