- make skin crawl
- make (your) skin crawl
to be very frightening or disgusting.
Just thinking about the weird way he talked made her skin crawl.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
make skin crawl
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make skin crawl — make (someone s) skin crawl if something or someone makes your skin crawl, you think they are very unpleasant or frightening. Just thinking about the way he had touched her made her skin crawl … New idioms dictionary
make your skin crawl — make your skin/flesh/crawl phrase to give you a very unpleasant and slightly frightened feeling Thesaurus: to make someone afraid or frightenedsynonym Main entry: crawl * * * make your ˈskin crawl … Useful english dictionary
make someone's skin crawl — make (someone s) skin crawl if something or someone makes your skin crawl, you think they are very unpleasant or frightening. Just thinking about the way he had touched her made her skin crawl … New idioms dictionary
make your skin crawl — make (your) skin crawl to be very frightening or disgusting. Just thinking about the weird way he talked made her skin crawl … New idioms dictionary
make someone's skin crawl — I see skin II make someone s skin (or flesh) crawl (or creep) cause someone to feel fear, horror, or disgust a person dying in a fire doesn t it make your skin crawl? … Useful english dictionary
make flesh/skin crawl — Something that makes your flesh (or skin) crawl fills you with disgust or makes you feel very nervous. Just talking about snakes makes my flesh crawl! … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
make someone's skin crawl — verb To disturb or bother; to frighten or disgust. The sound of fingernails on a chalkboard just makes my skin crawl … Wiktionary
make one's skin crawl — cause one to feel an unpleasant sensation resembling something moving over the skin. → crawl … English new terms dictionary
make your skin/flesh crawl — ◇ If something makes your skin/flesh crawl, it causes you to have an uncomfortable feeling of fear or disgust. Just thinking about being down in that dark cave makes my skin crawl. • • • Main Entry: ↑crawl … Useful english dictionary
crawl — crawl1 [krôl] vi. [ME craulen < ON krafla < Gmc base * krab , *kreb , to scratch (> Ger krabbeln): for IE base see CRAB1] 1. to move slowly by dragging the body along the ground, as a worm 2. to go on hands and knees; creep 3. to move or … English World dictionary
