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Cold feet

noun

Timidity that prevents the continuation of a course of action.

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"Cold feet" Quotes from Famous Books

... may be physical discomfort from cold feet, insufficient or too much clothing, or want of fresh ...

— The Care and Feeding of Children - A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses • L. Emmett Holt

... it means also that land and labor are dearer positively and comparatively with us, and that our pork-packing or stock-broking princes prefer to spend on comfort rather than size in their houses, and do not like the cold feet which the merchant princes of Italy must have had from generation to generation. I shall always be sorry I did not wear arctics when I went to the Pallavicini-Durazzo palace, and I strongly urge the reader to do so ...

— Roman Holidays and Others • W. D. Howells

... the hero of the moment. "There wasn't time for cold feet. It was too sudden. They just grazed past us, going very slow, and there was a devil of a bobbery. I fancy they thought they were properly in the consomme. A trap or something. Anyhow the two braves aft lost their heads and jumped overboard, and the bird in the conning ...

— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie

... seen in the winter tune a lazy nurse sit before the fire with a child on her lap, rubbing his cold feet just before putting him to his bed. Now, this is not the way to warm his feet. The right method is to let him romp and run either about the room, or the landing, or the hall—this will effectually warm them, but, of course, it will entail a little extra trouble ...

— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse

... say is," said Queenie, "that if you don't go out I shall give you up. I've no use for men with cold feet." ...

— Anne Severn and the Fieldings • May Sinclair

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