#43368
09/29/2001 9:24 PM
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I was wondering if anyone knows where the phrase "cold feet" comes from. I know it means a sudden reluctance to procede, but why does it mean that?
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#43370
09/30/2001 12:15 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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is it because she got frightened?
is it because dead people don't advance?
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#43371
09/30/2001 9:21 AM
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Perhaps this is a little more explanatory: http://www.futurehealth.org/smilebio.htmIt seems to make some sense, anyway!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#43372
09/30/2001 11:16 AM
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It seems to make some sense, anyway!Sure does, CK--thank you. When I get nervous, my hands always get cold--haven't noticed my feet. I wonder why the expression didn't come to be, "She got cold hands"? About another part of this excerpt, I've known for years that if I'm feeling a little tense, making myself smile even if I don't feel like it causes a good bit of relaxation of the facial muscles, and that often does have the effect of making me feel like smiling! 
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#43373
09/30/2001 11:29 AM
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I always heard "Cold hands, warm heart" They must have known you !
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#43374
09/30/2001 11:33 AM
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 ! Merci...
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#43375
09/30/2001 12:41 PM
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CK's post reminded me of a fancy Siamese cat we had back in the thirties. If you gave it a dish of cold milk, it would pick up its hind feet one at a time and shake them, obviously a reflex whereby the cold milk in the throat caused vasoconstriction in the extremities.
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#43376
09/30/2001 1:09 PM
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making myself smile even if I don't feel like it causes a good bit of relaxation of the facial muscles
If you relax your forehead all the muscles in your face relax.
Try it.
It works.
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#43377
09/30/2001 3:33 PM
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making myself smile even if I don't feel like it causes a good bit of relaxation of the facial muscles
If you relax your forehead all the muscles in your face relax.
Mmm, purr-rr...
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