: apprehension or doubt strong enough to prevent a planned course of action
Examples of cold feet in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebParamount’s stock fell roughly 7% on Friday amid a report that the company was getting cold feet about Skydance’s offer.—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024 But with no obvious action plan in sight, some of Tesla’s biggest supporters are beginning to get cold feet.—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 19 Apr. 2024 Jasmine Pineda doesn’t have cold feet going into her honeymoon with Gino Palazzolo on this week’s episode of 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After.—Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024 Curing cold feet with machine learning Though good, there’s nothing particularly novel about the ID.7’s seats.—Tim Stevens, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024 Her small belly, her chest, her forehead, her hands,
her cold feet bare in the night.—Mosab Abu Toha, The New York Review of Books, 29 Feb. 2024 Of course, with each passing day, there is a chance that teams get cold feet and back out of talks, but Snell's status as a two-time Cy Young winner should ensure Snell a solid deal eventually.—Jon Hoefling, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2024 An advertiser who agreed to run a pitch gets cold feet, doesn’t like the commercial that was supposed to run, or needs to claw back the money being spent.—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024 Aaron Pierre, who was tapped for the role of Malcolm X, got cold feet, too.—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2024
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