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The meaning and origin of the expression: Cold feet. Cold feet. Meaning. To 'get cold feet' is to become disheartened or timid, losing one's previous enthusiasm or courage. Origin. Why this term was coined isn't at all clear. On the face of it there doesn't seem to be any obvious connection with the literal meaning of cold feet and the meaning of the phrase. There are a couple of citations of the phrase from 1896, including this from Stephen Crane's novel Maggie, a girl of the streets, 1896:
People frequently use their hands when telling a story. Your feet sometimes have a story to tell as well, revealing a medical problem that might otherwise go unrecognized. Cold, purple feet signal an abnormality with the arterial circulation, the part of the circulatory system that delivers oxygenated blood from the heart to the body organs and tissues. The venous circulation, which carries oxygen-depleted blood back to the heart, is also involved in some conditions that cause cold, purple feet.