A figure of speech to signify how someone feels when they're nervous, anxious, worried, afraid, ashamed, or even shy.
This is typically an unpleasant feeling, because you will see something that hurts you, worries you, or scares you.
I am feeling the heat go up my body whenever I see a picture of that girl, because I miss her terribly, but I know at the same time that she doesn't want me, so I will never get the chance to be with her.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)