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cold feet

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1. cold feet - Noun

2. cold feet - Phrase

Meaning

timidity that prevents the continuation of a course of action

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You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants. Bill Watterson

When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet. Karl Marlantes

I was going to tell him but I got cold feet Source: Internet

As such, it should go without saying that when festivals don’t rake in the ideal numbers, many organizers and/or their financial backers get cold feet and abandon ship without seeing the forest for the trees. Source: Internet

But, as a cultural moment it also crystallised an idea that swept through fashion month: fashion is not just stuck in the past, it is in bed with it, snuggling up nice and close and rubbing its cold feet on it. Source: Internet

But that hasn't stopped people from wondering whether one of the two got cold feet or if there was a prenuptial disagreement. Source: Internet

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