Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) excellent, first-class; usu. in approving/congratulatory phr. your blood’s worth bottling.

1905		Duke Tritton’s Letter n.p.: No doubts about it, my Mary is a bottling Babbling Brook.
1919		W.H. Downing Digger Dialects 11: blood’s worth bottling — A phrase expressive of admiration. [Ibid.] 13: bottling — A phrase expressive of admiration.
1921		(con. WWI) E. Lynch Somme Mud 157: An officer excitedly tells me, ‘Your blood’s worth bottling, lad.’.
1924		(con. WWI) A.G. Pretty Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: blood’s worth bottling. A phrase expressive of admiration.
1956		B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: Ah, thanks, butty, your blood’s worth bottling.
1957		‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 5: I say: ‘Thanks mate. Yer blood’s worth bottling’.
1968		S. Gore Holy Smoke 10: Only, when David shows up with the scran, does Eilab say ‘Good on yer, mate – yer blood’s worth bottling’.
1999		G. Seal Lingo 88: one’s blood can be worth bottling or, less happily, be on the walls.
2000		Ozwords Apr. 2: It is also in First World War Australian military contexts that many Australian idioms are first recorded: his blood’s worth bottling, give it a burl, hop in for one’s chop, come a gutser, rough as bags.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 25: blood’s worth bottling Hearty appreciation of a splendid fellow ANZ mid C20.
2021		P. Papathanasiou Stoning 316: ‘Thanks for not letting me cark it. Yer blood’s worth bottling’.