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get cold feet
get cold feetTo lose your nerve, or be too fearful to go ahead with something.Translationscold (kəuld) adjective1. low in temperature. cold water; cold meat and salad. 冷的，涼的 冷的2. lower in temperature than is comfortable. I feel cold. 寒冷 寒冷3. unfriendly. His manner was cold. 冷淡的 冷淡的 noun1. the state of being cold or of feeling the coldness of one's surroundings. She has gone to live in the South of France because she cannot bear the cold in Britain; He was blue with cold. 寒冷，低溫 寒冷2. an illness with running nose, coughing etc. He has a bad cold; She has caught a cold; You might catch cold. 感冒，傷風 感冒ˈcoldly adverb in an unfriendly way. She looked at me coldly. 冷淡地 冷淡地ˈcoldness noun 冷淡 冷淡ˌcold-ˈblooded adjective1. having blood (like that of a fish) which takes the same temperature as the surroundings of the body. cold-blooded creatures. 冷血的 冷血的2. cruel and unfeeling. cold-blooded murder. 無情的 无情的cold war a major, especially political, struggle between nations which involves military threats but not fighting. 冷戰 冷战get cold feet to lose courage. I was going to apply for the job but I got cold feet. 喪失勇氣 丧失勇气give (someone) the cold shoulder verb (also ˌcoldˈshoulder ) to show that one is unwilling to be friendly with (a person). All the neighbours gave her the cold shoulder; He cold-shouldered all his sister's friends. 對人冷淡 （表示）冷淡 in cold blood deliberately and unemotionally. He killed them in cold blood. 殘忍地 残忍地get cold feet
get cold feetTo experience nervousness or anxiety before one attempts to do something, often to the extent that one tries to avoid it. I wasn't nervous until the morning of my wedding, but everyone assured me that I had just gotten cold feet. Good luck getting her out on stage—she always gets cold feet before a performance.See also: cold, feet, getcold feet, getAlso, have cold feet. Retreat from an undertaking; lose one's nerve. For example, I got cold feet when I learned the trip involves white-water rafting, or Don't count on including her-she's been known to have cold feet in the past. The origin of this term has been lost. In early 17th-century Italy it meant to be short of money, but that sense has never been used in English. [Late 1800s] See also: cold, getget cold feet or have cold feet COMMON If you get cold feet or have cold feet about something you have planned to do, you become nervous about it and not sure that you want to do it. My boyfriend got cold feet about being in a committed relationship. Leaving Ireland wasn't easy and I had cold feet about it a couple of times.See also: cold, feet, getget/have cold ˈfeet (informal) no longer want to continue what you intended or have started to do because you are nervous or afraid: Do you still want to do this parachute jump or are you getting cold feet? OPPOSITE: take the plungeSee also: cold, feet, get, havecold feet, to get/haveTo be timid; to back off from some undertaking. This expression appears to date from the nineteenth century, at least in its present meaning. In the early seventeenth century it was an Italian proverb that meant to have no money; it was so used by Ben Jonson in his play Volpone. The source of the more recent meaning is obscure. Some believe it comes from soldiers retreating in battle because their feet are frozen. Another source cites a German novel of 1862 in which a card player withdraws from a game because, he claims, his feet are cold. See also: cold, get, haveEncyclopediaSeecold |