get cold feet

English

WOTD – 24 March 2019

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɡɛt ˈkəʊld fiːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɡɛt ˈkoʊld fit/

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Verb

get cold feet (third-person singular simple present gets cold feet, present participle getting cold feet, simple past got cold feet, past participle (UK) got cold feet or (US) gotten cold feet)

1. (This entry is a translation hub.) To develop cold feet, in the sense of nervousness about going through with something.

Translations

to develop cold feet (nervousness about going through with something)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臨陣退縮

• Dutch: watervrees hebben, plankenkoorts hebben
• Finnish: jänistää (fi)
• German: kalte Füße bekommen (de)

• Hebrew: לקבל רגלים קרות‎ (he)
• Hungarian: inába száll a bátorsága, fázik (hu), visszariad
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: få kalde føtter

  Nynorsk: få kalde føter

• Portuguese: amarelar (pt)