Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 13, 2025
You stay right here, and I'll be back as soon as I've looked into the face of the mystery." "What do you take me for?" Harry asked almost fiercely. "A baby? Or a cold-foot?" "Nothing like it," answered Tom Reade with reassuring positiveness. "You're out of sorts, to-night.
Hence a coffee-cooler is a man who is detailed on work at the rear of the fighting line simply because he is of no earthly use at the front. It is not as bad, however, to be a coffee-cooler as a cold-foot. A "cold-foot" is a soldier paralyzed with terror; he is worse than useless anywhere in the Army. The cold-foot is ironically asked why he didn't bring his woolen socks along.
If a cold-foot gets into deadly action it is said that the cold chills chase each other down his spine and all settle in his feet, so that he is frozen in his tracks. However, a soldier who betrays cowardice in the face of the enemy may be shot for his cowardice, for which reason "cold feet" sometimes become cold for all time to come.
"I wouldn't feel so bad about a call down over a bit of ordinary b.j.-ety. I was scorched and withered for being a cold-foot and a quitter and I deserve it all, and more!" "I'm glad you see that, old Gridley!" murmured Cadet Dick heartily. "Now, Greg, you won't write another letter of resignation, will you?" "Not if I die of homesickness and melancholy!" muttered Greg, clenching his hands.
Soldiers there have been who have shown "cold feet" in their first battle or two, and yet have been among the best of soldiers later on. But the cold-foot is a rarity, anyway, among the regulars. "Hello," broke in Kelly, peering out through the rain, "there goes some good fellow to the rainmakers." Many of the other soldiers looked.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking