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Cold feet   /koʊld fit/   Listen
Cold feet

noun
1.
Timidity that prevents the continuation of a course of action.





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"Cold feet" Quotes from Famous Books



... "that they took us for game wardens. Mebbe now they've been shooting deer out of season, and got cold feet when they knew some people were ...
— Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys - The Birch Bark Lodge • Silas K. Boone
... closing of the pores and a resulting cold. Rubber boots or overshoes are very bad if worn constantly. The rubber, being waterproof, holds in the perspiration and we often find our stockings damp even when the walking is dry. Rubber boots also make our feet tender and cause cold feet. Tight shoes are also bad for the reason that they check circulation. The best footwear for a boy who lives in the country will be Indian moccasins or shoepacs worn with several pairs of lumbermen's woollen stockings. Such footwear would not do for skating, ...
— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller
... wash-kitchen in a spiritless way, and did not return again that night. She did not move. It seemed a long time to the child before she turned, her face wet with tears, and took him up in her arms, chafing his cold feet. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various
... said to the old woodman, 'look at this poor girl, and see what pretty cold feet she has. They are as white as our milk! And look and see what an odd cloak she has, just like the bit of velvet that hangs up in our cupboard, and which you found that day the little cubs were killed ...
— The Rose and the Ring • William Makepeace Thackeray
... at his house, and when she didn't he figured she must have gone to Nellie's. It was only when Rodney Kipp fires the grammy question at him that he sees he's made a wrong calculation and begins havin' cold feet. ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford


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