Cold Feet

Definition: Cold Feet

Cold Feet

Noun

1. Timidity that prevents the continuation of a course of action; "I was going to tell him but I got cold feet".

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Cowardice

Poltroonery, baseness; dastardness, dastardy; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear; white feather, faint heart; cold feet , yellow streak.

Cold Feet (1973)

Operation Cold Feet (1956)

Cold Feet (1930)

Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978)

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Theater & Movies

• Hot Lead & Cold Feet (reference)

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One slip and you'll have some cold feet On the way to Station Wide. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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Expressions using "cold feet": get cold feet ♦ have cold feet. Additional references.

Hungarian

szurkol (have cold feet, have the jitters, to be flurried, to get cold feet, to jitter, to root for), meghátrál (give ground, to back down, to blench, to eat crow, to face about, to fall back, to flinch, to get cold feet, to give place, to lower one's flag, to make place, to recoil, to show the white feather, to stick at, to strike one's flag, to take the back track), ideges (edgy, fazed, fidgety, flustered, have butterflies in one's stomach, have cold feet, have the needles, het up, high strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, migraine, nervous, nervy, neurotic, restive, restless, skittish, stroppy, to be in a tantrum, to be on edge, to feel nervous, to feel rum, to jitter, uptight, vexed), fél (be afraid, half, have cold feet, party, party to a dispute, party to a suit, to apprehend, to be frightened, to be in a fright, to be in bodily fear of sy, to dread oneself, to feel frightened, to get cold feet, to squib), bizonytalan (choppy, cranky, dicey, dim, dubious, elusive, equivocal, faint, faltering, fickle, have cold feet, hazy, hesitating, indefinite, indeterminate, insecure, irresolute, nondescript, obscure, pennky, precarious, questionable, sandy, scratchy, shaky, speculative, suspensive, to be in the air, to hang in the air, to hang in the balance, transcendental, uncertain, unsettled, unsteady, unsure, vague, woozy), be van gyulladva (funk, have cold feet, have the jitters, have the wind up, to funk, to get cold feet, to get the wind up). (various references)

Pig Latin

oldcay eetfay.(various references)

Romanian

laşitate (cowardice, cowardliness, poltroonery, yellow). (various references)

Russian 

трусость (chicken heart, cowardice, poltroonery, pusillanimity, recreancy). (various references)

Turkish

korkmak (be afraid, be afraid of, be appalled, be frightened, be scared of, dread, fear, flinch, funk, get a fright, get cold feet, have a fright, have cold feet, quail, scare, show the white feather, shy, sweat blood, take fright), çekinmek (beware, boggle, chicken out, dread, fear, flee from, flinch, funk, get cold feet, hang back, have cold feet, hesitate, hold back, hold off, keep clear of, shrink, shun, shy, wince, withdraw). (various references)

Turkmen 

namartlamak (be afraid, get cold feet). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: clefted, deflect, feedlot.

-2 letters: defect, felted, lofted.

-3 letters: cleft, coled, coted, delft, dolce, elect, feted, fleet, toled.

-4 letters: cede, celt, cete, clef, clod, clot, code, coed, coft, cold, cole, colt, cote, deco, deet, deft, dele, delf, delt, dole, dolt, dote, feed, feel, feet, felt, feod, fete, fled, flee, floc, floe, fold, leet, left, lode.

+1 letter: deflector.

+2 letters: centerfold, deflection, deflectors.

+3 letters: centerfolds, closefisted, deflections.

+5 letters: electroformed, reflectorized.