cold feet
plural nounDefinition of cold feet
: apprehension or doubt strong enough to prevent a planned course of action
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First game, had some cold feet being a little nervous. — Daniel Boyette, al, "Grayson (Ga.) knocks off James Clemens," 23 Aug. 2019 Brown dominated the news cycle with cold feet and a hard head, things that had nothing to do with what actually transpired on the field. — Jerry Mcdonald, The Mercury News, "What happened at Raiders’ camp — minus Antonio Brown," 20 Aug. 2019 Paramount Pictures, where McKay made The Big Short, originally backed the project but got cold feet. — Kyle Smith, National Review, "Vice Producer Going Bankrupt," 12 Aug. 2019 But the giant home-builder got cold feet about the costs of environmental and engineering challenges, according to a person familiar with the deal. — Lynnley Browning, Fortune, "This Failed Trump Golf Course Is Now a Dilapidated New York State Park," 16 June 2019 The venture capital firms that float midsize startups could get cold feet and pull their funding, forcing the companies to lay off employees or close outright. — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, "WeWork rose fast on short-term leases. But can it stick around long-term?," 10 Aug. 2019 The Sting Things started to turn sour for O’Rourke and Black, however, when the inflated share prices of AV1 began to fall as their big investors got cold feet and started selling. — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, "How an undercover FBI sting busted an alleged multimillion-dollar stock fraud," 26 July 2019 But the giant home-builder got cold feet about the costs of environmental and engineering challenges, according to a person familiar with the deal. — Lynnley Browning, Fortune, "This Failed Trump Golf Course Is Now a Dilapidated New York State Park," 16 June 2019 But the giant home-builder got cold feet about the costs of environmental and engineering challenges, according to a person familiar with the deal. — Lynnley Browning, Fortune, "This Failed Trump Golf Course Is Now a Dilapidated New York State Park," 16 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cold feet.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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