If a feeling gets the better of you, you cannot stop yourself from allowing that feeling to make you do something, despite knowing that what you are doing is wrong:
Get cold feet
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to suddenly become too frightened to do something you had planned to do, especially something important such as getting married
Get cold feet meaning & definition 1 of Get cold feet.
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to feel too frightened to do something that you had planned to do:
Get cold feet meaning & definition 2 of Get cold feet.
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