get cold feet

English

WOTD – 24 March 2019

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)

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

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

Chinese:
Mandarin: 臨陣退縮／临阵退缩, 臨陣退縮／临阵退缩 (línzhèntuìsuō)
Danish: få kolde fødder, trække i land
Dutch: watervrees hebben, plankenkoorts hebben
Finnish: jänistää (fi)
German: kalte Füße bekommen (de)
Hebrew: לקבל רגלים קרות‎ (he)
Hungarian: inába száll a bátorsága, visszariad, visszaretten (hu), elbátortalanodik (hu), (colloquial) beijed, begyullad (hu), berezel (hu), (slang) begazol (hu), bemajrézik
Macedonian: се попи́шмани pf (se popíšmani), се испи́шмани pf (se ispíšmani), се пи́шмани impf (se píšmani), се ко́леба impf (se kóleba), се поко́леба pf (se pokóleba)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: få kalde føtter

Nynorsk: få kalde føter
Portuguese: amarelar (pt)
Swedish: få kalla fötter (sv)
Turkish: çekinmek (tr), gözü yememek (tr), götü yememek (slang)

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