cold feet

短语

害怕、胆怯

词形变化

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A feeling of nervousness or anxiety causing one to reconsider a decision about an upcoming event.

    非正式 仅复数

    The groom got cold feet before his wedding.

    The sale was almost agreed, but now the prospective purchasers seem to be suffering from a bad case of cold feet.

  2. 2.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cold, feet.

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词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

timidity timidness timorousness

词源

Idiomatic sense possibly from a calque of German kalte Füße bekommen (“to get cold feet”), or of Lombard avegh minga frecc i pee (“to have no money”, literally “to be cold in the feet”) (Italian aver freddo ai piedi), said by a person who wishes to stop gambling, allegedly because the person now has cold feet due to being too poor to afford proper footwear.

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