COLD FEET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cold feet mean? 

• COLD FEET (noun)
  The noun COLD FEET has 1 sense:

1. timidity that prevents the continuation of a course of action

  Familiarity information: COLD FEET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLD FEET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Timidity that prevents the continuation of a course of action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

I was going to tell him but I got cold feet

Hypernyms ("cold feet" is a kind of...):

timidity; timidness; timorousness (fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions)