get cold feet

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I began to get cold feet, but these other two guys were totally positive and they were absolutely right.

It was obvious by September 1990 that Gorbachev was getting very cold feet about both economic reform and national self-determination within the Soviet Union.

Difficulties seemed inevitable and if the bank got cold feet, Taylor Woodrow would be finished. Nothing did go wrong, however.

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