Step outside onto winter ice barefoot and you will certainly have me, but a hesitant runaway bride gets me without ever touching the snow. What am I?
Cold feet
Idiom wordplay: physically having freezing feet in winter versus the metaphor of having second thoughts ('getting cold feet').
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