cold feet
Use Cold feet in a sentencecold feet
noun Informal.
a loss or lack of courage or confidence; an onset of uncertainty or fear: She got cold feet when asked to sing a solo.
Origin:
1890–95
1890–95
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| cold feet | |
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| informal loss or lack of courage or confidence | |
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Cold feet
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
cold feet
1893, Amer.Eng., but the presumed It. original (avegh minga frecc i pee) is a Lombard proverb meaning "to have no money."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
cold feet definition
To “have cold feet” is to be too fearful to undertake or complete an action: “The backup quarterback was called into the game, but he got cold feet and refused to go in.”
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Slang Dictionary
cold feet definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
There is no risk of workers and customers having cold feet.
Both countries are now getting cold feet, claiming misuse of the resolution's elastic language.
Even some companies that stand to be enriched by the construction work have begun getting cold feet.
Yet they are not the only ones to have developed cold feet.
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