shake in (one's) shoes

To be very nervous or afraid, often visibly so. That poor kid is shaking in his shoes up there on stage. I may seem confident when I'm leading a training seminar, but I'm really shaking in my shoes most of the time.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
ConstÂNcia	-	Portuguese
Ilarion	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian
Helena	he-LE-nah (German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish), hay-LAY-nah (Dutch), HE-le-nah (Finnish)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Finnish, Es
Calvin	KAL-vin	English
Elisabed	-	Georgian
Bice	BEE-che	Italian