Talk:Cold feet (metaphor)

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I removed

In weddings, having "cold feet" can be a state of ambivalence, or uncertainty in regards to a pending wedding; Having cold feet is a common alibi used by runaway brides.

It is a silly space filler in the absence of a ref showing that weddings are a major context, which will be hard since GTests show

about 224,000 for "cold feet" wedding

about 1,980,000 for "Cold feet"

and the false hits (non-metaphorical uses) among those 2M are not likely to have that much in common. Some of the 224k also need to be checked to see how often pages mentioning "wedding" use "cold feet" without metaphorical intent, let alone metaphoric uses about matters other than the wedding. Don't forget that "wedding anniversary" is unlikely to occur with "cold feet" in this sense, but is counted in the above search. But this is idle talk, bcz that much refinement beyond a simple GTest IMO gets you firmly into WP:OR territory. So find some reliable references on how much it's used.

That, by the way, is my reason for not rewriting over, e.g.

echoing "having cold feet", truly shitty writing

"alibi"'s primary, and thus only clear meaning is "bcz i was elsewhere"

who capitalizes following a semicolon

the r.b. lk was to the improper (and now removed) dictdef at the top of the Dab

...

--Jerzy•t 22:40, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Here's a source w/ (only non-wedding) examples: Slang - Learn American Slang expressions.
--Jerzy•t 08:38, 30 January 2008 (UTC)