| 单词 | cold feet |
| 释义 | > as lemmascold feet cold feet n. (a) in colloquial (originally U.S.) phrase to get (or have) cold feet, to become cowardly or discouraged; hence = fear, ‘funk’, cowardice; (b) Horticulture (see quot. 1909). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] arghtha1250 arghshipc1275 faintise1297 cowardicec1300 cowardshipc1330 arghness1340 arghhoodc1350 sheepnessc1380 pusillanimitya1393 cowardnessa1400 neshnessa1400 cowardyc1405 lithernessc1425 lashness1477 cowardrya1547 meagreness?1553 cowardliness1556 micropsychy1651 buzzardism1659 stanielry1659 manlessness1667 cow-heartedness1718 pusillanimousness1727 chicken-heartedness1808 infortitude1813 plucklessness1824 white-featherism1843 cold feet1893 yellow1893 liver-heartedness1897 yellowness1909 1893 S. Crane Maggie (1896) xiv. 112 I knew this was the way it would be. They got cold feet. 1896 G. Ade Artie xii. 108 He's one o' them boys that never has cold feet. 1904 E. Robins Magn. North i. 8 But instead of ‘getting cold feet’ as the phrase for discouragement ran, and turning back, they determined [etc.]. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cold feet,..the condition of plants due to excessive watering without proper drainage. 1914 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 40 I get awfully cold feet... That puts the fear of God into you. 1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xxi. 329 It seems that the enemy have evacuated Fosse Alley again. Nobody quite knows why: a sudden attack of cold feet, probably. 1962 Times 20 Feb. 11/2 The Algerian leadership might have cold feet at the concessions it has made. < as lemmas |
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