Cold-feet meaning

The definition of cold feet is nervousness before some big event.

A feeling of intense nervousness before your wedding that makes you consider calling off the marriage is an example of cold feet.

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Fearfulness or timidity preventing the completion of a course of action.
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Cold-feet Sentence Examples

  • She may have been a duty for him, but he'd been so much more … and Anshan… Her gaze went to her cold feet again.

  • The handsome young soldier who had brought the wood, setting his arms akimbo, began stamping his cold feet rapidly and deftly on the spot where he stood.

  • It can be used to warm cold feet in the winter.

  • Throw a rug on hardwood floors to warm cold feet.

  • Plush socks make great winter socks for girls who always seem to have cold feet.

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