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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 114. The noun phrase today is cold

  • feet. Okay. Let's look at the note. If someone gets has or is given cold feet...

  • So yeah it could be used with a number of verbs. We often say somebody has cold

  • feet. Somebody can get cold feet. Somebody

  • could be given cold feet. And there might even be more. So etc. cold feet, he or she has

  • an overwhelming feeling of nervousness, anxiety and cowardice. Yeah. They get

  • scared and run away etc. Right before the time one was supposed to do something

  • important or something of significance. So right before that, they just ... we also

  • sometimes say chicken out. Basically they get cold feet. Okay. Let's continue.

  • The exact origin cannot be pinpointed, but some people believe it was a

  • military phrase. Some soldiers that were too scared to enter battle would

  • claim or at least maybe they tried to claim his or her feet were frozen in an

  • attempt to avoid going into battle. I don't know if that really worked or not,

  • but at least some people believe that that's what they think. Okay. Let's

  • continue. All right. We got three examples here. Let's look at the first one. Her.

  • fiance got cold feet and left her standing at the altar. Yeah. We've seen

  • this one a number of times. We often say somebody gets cold feet. Even if they

  • don't go that far I mean if you leave them standing at the altar that means

  • you waited until the wedding day and you let them you know, the bride or the

  • groom you know go to the church and wait for you. And you don't show up you got

  • cold feet. You ran away. I remember that they had that movie several years ago

  • with Julia Roberts that was called "Runaway Bride "

  • supposedly in the movie she did that a couple of times. But this has happened

  • before a few times. You might have seen in some movie but in real life it has

  • happened. All right. Number two. Jack paid for

  • skydiving lessons and went up in plane when he got cold feet at the last minute.

  • So he's up there . I'm not jumping. Yeah. And refused to jump out of the plane. So

  • he got cold feet at the last minute and said he didn't want to do it. All right and

  • number three here. Just before she was supposed to go on stage. Well you know,

  • because maybe she was acting or maybe she's giving a speech or whatever she

  • got cold feet and ran away and she got too nervous and couldn't face it.

  • She ran away. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time.

  • Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 114. The noun phrase today is cold

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英語導師Nick P名詞短語(114) Cold Feet(冷腳) (English Tutor Nick P Noun Phrase (114) Cold Feet)

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