Synonyms for cold feet
Grammar : Noun |
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Définition of cold feet
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
- 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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