Talk:fear
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Equinox in topic fear of heights
Spanish
[edit]Noun
1. miedo m(fear of oranges--miedo a las narangas), temor[1] m(for fear of--por temor a), aprensión f 2. riesgo m[2] (There is no fear of rain today--no hay riesgo de llueva hoy)
Verb
1. Tener miedo[3] 2. Temer
References
[edit]Fear is a bad advisor
[edit]You have the saying 'fear is a bad advisor'. I was wondering if there's more information about this saying, like who said this first? etc? Timboliu (talk) 06:53, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Sounds like a translation of an old Dutch saying: "Angst is een slechte raadgever". 2001:980:53D4:1:954:1E0:772:2EE6 15:00, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
The Fear
[edit]There's also "The Fear", which Urban Dictionary (for once) manages to define quite well [1]. Equinox ◑ 15:34, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
Also used by Edmund Spenser (and nobody else?) as an alt form of fere, a companion. Equinox ◑ 18:07, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
Isn't fear of heights idiomatic (enough)? --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:12, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
- No, you can have a fear of anything. Equinox ◑ 13:49, 12 November 2019 (UTC)