it still makes your butt buckle like a bunny rabbit's nose

[flowersophy]

Hi,

Does "like a bunny rabbit's nose" mean "very nervous" in the following sentence?

To be up on that bridge for the first time, that high, and jump-it still makes your butt buckle like a bunny rabbit's nose.

Many thanks!

 

[dermott]

It's a vulgar metaphor. Butt = bottom or backside, but in this case probably also anus. Popular theory has it that your anus contracts when you are nervous, a sight that could resemble a rabbit's nose twitching nervously. I've heard a similar metaphor used referencing a cat.

 

[RedwoodGrove]

Hi

To be up on that bridge for the first time, that high, and jump-it still makes your butt buckle like a bunny rabbit's nose.

Can you provide a context, source, and speaker? It sounds like military slang, especially with the use of "bridge".

 

[se16teddy]

I guess "bridge" is used in its primary sense, and we are talking bungee-jumping. Top 10 bungee jumps in the world

 

[RedwoodGrove]

Ah!

 

[dermott]

That's what I assumed.

 

[RedwoodGrove]

I guess "bridge" is used in its primary sense

Right, as in the bridge of a ship?

 

[Keith Bradford]

This is off-topic.

To buckle like a bunny rabbit's nose is an invention of the author. It means to twitch and close up, similar to the involuntary clenching of the buttocks when one is frightened.

 

[flowersophy]

I see. Thank you very much!