Synonyms for cold feet
cold feet

Princeton's WordNet

1. cold feetnoun

   timidity that prevents the continuation of a course of action

   "I was going to tell him but I got cold feet"

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1. • Timidity

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1. Andrew Hayman:

   Capital investors are getting cold feet about new investment, countries in West Africa will be lower down their list so investment will be longer coming back.

2. Ronnie Ortiz-Magro:

   I got cold feet.I wanted to do the right thing, but there was a part of me that was like, ‘I’m not going to do the right thing.’ So I didn’t do it. I ended up cheating, she found out. I blew it. It’s over.

3. Gary Bongiovanni:

   The venues are getting cold feet. Everyone is worried about protesters, if I was advising him, I would tell him to cancel everything and lie low for a while.

4. Jan Tiedemann:

   Shipping companies definitely ordered too much because they tried to get these ships with a Tier II compliance, what happens now is some who optimistically have done that are getting cold feet. They thought maybe we can get away with it - the ships will be delivered in 2017, the market would have recovered by then and now they say, 'we're digging our own grave'.

5. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin:

   I don't think The President gets cold feet about anything, the President is set. Right now it's still on. If that changes, you'll find out about it.