老外怎么老说put my foot in my mouth？脚放嘴里，疯了？

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1. cold feet: 临阵畏缩，事到临头打退堂鼓

when we talk about having cold feet, what we wanna talk about is that someone have made a decision to do something but they at the last minute hesitate and want to go back to walk away.

It’s like to get scared. You’re about to do something, you’ve been planning it, you know it’s coming, you want to do it, but then at the last minute, you get scared, you want to back away.

某人原本已经计划决定了要去做某事，但是到了最后一秒又开始害怕，犹豫，打退堂鼓。

- Oh my teeth ache a lot recently. 我最近牙齿很疼。

- Then go to see a dentist, you need to get your teethfixed. 去看牙医啊，你得治一治你的牙齿。

- Yeah, Iknow. But every time I start to phone the dentist, I think about the sound ofthat drill and right away I get cold feet. 啊我知道。但是每一次我想着要给牙医打电话，我就想到那个钻头的声音，我就打退堂鼓。

2. to get your feet wet: 通过实践去做，开始学习某事情了，试水

when you get your feet wet, you gain your first experience of something, you start to learn something.

Take English learning as an example. I know most of you guys are afraid to embarrass yourselves by trying to speak English when you are not that good at it. But that's the best way to learn: when you meet an American, try a few words --jump in and get your feet wet.

拿英文学习来举例子。我知道你们很多人都觉得，在英文还不太好的时候，你会很不好意思用英文交流，但是事实上那是最好的学习方式：当你遇见一个美国人的时候，尝试说几句——去练习，去实践。

3. put your foot in your mouth: 无意中说了些什么不合适的话，说错了话，伤到了别人

To put your foot in your mouth means to accidentally say something inappropriate, that is to say something you shouldn’t have said.

无意中说了些什么不合适的话，本不该说的话。

“Oh my God! Ijust put my foot in my mouth! I asked a woman on the bus when her baby was due,but she wasn’t pregnant!!”

天哪，我刚刚说错话了！我刚刚问了一个女人她的预产期是什么时候，但是，她根本没有怀孕！！！！

4. wait for the other shoe to drop: 等着下一个事件(或难题)发生

for example, you get up a little bit late on a weekday morning, and you need to get to work on time. And then you found out you locked your keys in your car, you have a flat tire. you think you have bad luck. so you could say, oh my gosh, I’m just waiting for the other shoe shoe to drop.

比如说，你在一个工作日的早上起晚了，你需要按时去上班。然后你发现你把钥匙锁在了车里，你的车胎又瘪了！你觉得你特背！这个时候你就可以说，天哪，所以接下来是什么呢？！？！

Depressed people can even feel sad about good events ( they are always waiting for the other shoe to drop) because they are trapped in the habit of depression at the brain level.

抑郁症人群即使面对好的事情也会有不好的情绪，因为他们潜意识里总是觉得会发生不好的事情。