Why did the nervous little sprout refuse to open its petals when the April showers arrived?
It had cold feet about coming out
The humor stems from taking the idiom 'cold feet,' which means feeling fear or hesitation, and applying it literally to roots buried in chilly spring soil. Just before the bloom fully opens, the plant experiences a moment of nervous stage fright.
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