: apprehension or doubt strong enough to prevent a planned course of action
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Advertisers began to get cold feet about the vigilante-like tactics used to investigate alleged predators.—Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 Or, sometimes the non-comics get cold feet on a certain joke.—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 May 2026 The $10 billion that Cursor keeps even if the deal doesn’t happen looks, to my traditional M&A reporter brain, like the largest breakup fee on record (a smart move, given Musk’s penchant for getting cold feet).—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 23 Apr. 2026 But Borgli isn’t just delivering a biting satire on the ultimate case of cold feet.—David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cold feet