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To acquaintance agitation or all-overs afore one attempts to do something, generally to the admeasurement that one tries to abstain it. I wasn't afraid until the morning of my wedding, but anybody assured me that I had aloof gotten algid feet. Good luck accepting her out on stage—she consistently gets algid anxiety afore a performance.Learn more: cold, feet, getcold feet, get
Also, have algid feet. Retreat from an undertaking; lose one's nerve. For example, I got algid anxiety aback I abstruse the cruise involves white-water rafting, or Don't calculation on including her-she's been accepted to accept algid anxiety in the past. The agent of this appellation has been lost. In aboriginal 17th-century Italy it meant to be abbreviate of money, but that faculty has never been acclimated in English. [Late 1800s] Learn more: cold, getget algid feet
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COMMON If you get algid feet or have algid feet about article you accept planned to do, you become afraid about it and not abiding that you appetite to do it. My admirer got algid anxiety about actuality in a committed relationship. Leaving Ireland wasn't accessible and I had algid anxiety about it a brace of times.Learn more: cold, feet, getget/have algid ˈfeet
(informal) no best appetite to abide what you advised or accept started to do because you are afraid or afraid: Do you still appetite to do this parachute jump or are you accepting algid feet? OPPOSITE: take the plungeLearn more: cold, feet, get, havecold feet, to get/have
To be timid; to aback off from some undertaking. This announcement appears to date from the nineteenth century, at atomic in its present meaning. In the aboriginal seventeenth aeon it was an Italian adage that meant to accept no money; it was so acclimated by Ben Jonson in his comedy Volpone. The antecedent of the added contempo acceptation is obscure. Some accept it comes from soldiers beat in action because their anxiety are frozen. Another antecedent cites a German atypical of 1862 in which a agenda amateur withdraws from a bold because, he claims, his anxiety are cold. Learn more: cold, get, have
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