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Meanings of cold feet in English

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Usage of cold feet in English
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That was last year, and I had a case of cold feet.
Good girls don't
2
A bad circulation results in cold feet, in local stagnation, in lethargy.
Europe—Whither Bound? / Being Letters of Travel from the Capital...
3
Which is what gave our delightful Home Secretary cold feet about cooperation.
The Rhesus Chart
4
The public may be keen, but Crowhurst himself is developing cold feet.
Radio NZ
5
Don't tell me you've changed your mind and are getting cold feet.
Getting old is tres dangereux
6
Around six, Monty called up to know if she had cold feet.
Mildred Pierce
7
The following cold -water applications are very effective for curing chronic cold feet:
Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease...
8
The tiny cold feet of mice pattered up and down his spine.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
9
It is not known if one of the couples got cold feet.
Reuters
10
Got cold feet after going through the experience and had to quit.
Pathfinder; or, The Missing Tenderfoot
11
The best recipe for getting cold feet is to wear woolen stockings.
Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
12
But even such men get cold feet after the public gets wise.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
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She was my wife and she had cold feet and ate onions.
Rolling Stones
14
To avoid suffering from cold feet, the boot should be amply loose.
Our Deportment / Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most R...
15
He snatched his cold feet from the middle of the cook's back.
The Man from the Bitter Roots
16
Marrying that woman has given you cold feet, and she knows it.
The Desired Woman
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United Kingdom
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