cold feet 的定义
Informal.
- a loss or lack of courage or confidence; an onset of uncertainty or fear: She got cold feet when asked to sing a solo.
cold feet 近义词
loss of nerve preventing completion of an action
更多cold feet例句
- This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.
- We indulge in expensive cold-pressed juices and SoulCycle classes, justifying these purchases as investments in our health.
- Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.
- The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.
- Accusing his opponents of being locked in a Cold War mind-set, it is Stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.
- He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
- Madame de Condillac stood watching him, her face composed, her glance cold.
- Moreover, most of the burrows were only a few feet apart and no agonistic behavior was witnessed.
- Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.
- We all rose to our feet, and he shook hands with everybody without waiting to be introduced.