The phrase "develop cold" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: After standing outside in the rain for hours, I began to develop a cold.
It's a bit late to develop cold feet, surely.
In a study of 153 healthy men and women, Sheldon Cohen and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University found that those who slept less than seven hours a night were three times as likely to develop cold symptoms when exposed to a cold-causing virus than were people who slept eight or more hours.
But we seem to develop cold feet when it comes to implementation.
The animals were less prone to develop an inflammatory-related state of pain and were, in the partial sciatic nerve ligation chronic pain model, much less hypersensitive to mechanical stimuli and did not develop cold allodynia or heat hyperalgesia.
Northern cottonwood, therefore, may develop cold resistance earlier in the fall than southern cottonwood.
As far as cold stress is concerned, it could be implemented for identification of useful molecular markers or relevant forward genetics experiments to develop cold tolerant crop varieties.
Special Forces soldiers may develop cold-blooded reflexes, but they are also trained to know when not to kill.
They were also more likely to develop colds, according to a study in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Some restaurateurs, after sniffing around the project in its early stages, developed cold feet.
Yet they are not the only ones to have developed cold feet.
Development assistant for British Screen; script editor for Granada; moved to comedy department in 1993 and developed Cold Feet.
