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Torsten
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 #3 (permalink) Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:08 am Meaning of "cold feet" |
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Hi,
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| Although I'd made up my mind to do it last night now I'm not sure and am getting cold feet about it. |
I suppose the 'd' in I'd made up...' is 'had'. I'd like to know if it's necessary for the sentence or just a colloquial expression.
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:09 am Meaning of "cold feet" |
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Hai Haihao
Yes, the 'd means had. You can use either the past perfect or the simple past tense here. I wouldn't consider using the past perfect to be colloquial. On the contrary, it sounds more formal than the simple past tense.
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:46 am Meaning of "cold feet" |
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Hai Amy, Ni-hao! (Chinesisch, = Guten Tag) :)
Danke shon wieder!
Hai-hao. |
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| #6 (permalink) Fri Jul 30, 2010 16:57 pm Meaning of "cold feet" |
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thanks lot for your help, as well as i was finding many to get free english, so now i'm very glad for your great help to me,i live in africa called djibouti in east and in my countery the frist language is french, and i likes more to learn english so please send me as well as u send me
beast regards, houssein |
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