Synonyms for cold feet

Grammar : Noun

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Origin : 1893, American English; the presumed Italian original (avegh minga frecc i pee) is a Lombard proverb meaning "to have no money," but some of the earliest English usages refer to gamblers, so a connection is possible.

noun loss of nerve preventing completion of an action

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I'll never complain at havin' cold feet ag'in if I git out of this.
Extract from : « Cap'n Eri » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Positively no cold feet when they are worn, or money refunded.
Extract from : « Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 » by Various

Positively no cold feet where they are worn, or money refunded.
Extract from : « Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 » by Various

He'd got stage-fright, or cold feet, or something of the kind.
Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford

I'd rather be an energetic fool than an angel with cold feet.
Extract from : « The Ghost Breaker » by Paul Dickey

At any rate, Fritz was not going to see that he had cold feet.
Extract from : « A Lively Bit of the Front » by Percy F. Westerman

It gives me cold feet all the time when I'm on the surface inside there.
Extract from : « The Story of Our Submarines » by John Graham Bower

If you've got cold feet you don't want a drink, because you daren't have it.
Extract from : « The Story of Our Submarines » by John Graham Bower

But they got cold feet and father bought a share in the claim cheap.
Extract from : « The Trail Boys on the Plains » by Jay Winthrop Allen

Talk about cold feet; we had heard of "cold feet" when we were in Egypt.
Extract from : « Trooper Bluegum at the Dardanelles » by Oliver Hogue

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