Cold Feet

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Cold-footed" appears with some frequency in journalism of 80 or more years ago.

JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>On Tue, 3 May 2005 09:56:43 -0400, bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
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>>All over the newspapers for day after day after day now is the "runaway
>>bride" who got "cold feet."
> >..

One nice variant I heard on TV yesterday, courtesy of Michael Wilbon
of ESPN's PTI: "the cold-footed Jennifer Wilbanks". I note there
are 3710 google hits for this lovely adjective, but I can't recall
coming across one before.

larry

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