give someone the willies

give someone the willies
give (someone) the creeps/willies informal to make you feel frightened and anxious, especially when there is no real reason for this.

This old house gives me the creeps.

I've never liked spiders - they give me the willies.


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  • give someone the creeps — verb To give someone a feeling of uneasiness or mild fright. Walking through the graveyard late at night gave me the creeps. Syn: give someone the willies, spook, unnerve, creep someone out …   Wiktionary

  • give someone the creeps — give (someone) the creeps/willies informal to make you feel frightened and anxious, especially when there is no real reason for this. This old house gives me the creeps. I ve never liked spiders they give me the willies …   New idioms dictionary

  • give the willies — give (someone) the creeps/willies informal to make you feel frightened and anxious, especially when there is no real reason for this. This old house gives me the creeps. I ve never liked spiders they give me the willies …   New idioms dictionary

  • give the willies — {v. phr.} To cause someone to be uncomfortable, fearful, or nervous. * /Sue hates to camp out in a tent; the buzzing of the mosquitoes gives her the willies./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • give the willies — {v. phr.} To cause someone to be uncomfortable, fearful, or nervous. * /Sue hates to camp out in a tent; the buzzing of the mosquitoes gives her the willies./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • give\ the\ willies — v. phr. To cause someone to be uncomfortable, fearful, or nervous. Sue hates to camp out in a tent; the buzzing of the mosquitoes gives her the willies …   Словарь американских идиом

  • willies — noun A feeling of nervousness or fear (usually in the phrase give someone the willies.) Staying in the haunted house gave me the willies …   Wiktionary

  • give the creeps — give (someone) the creeps/willies informal to make you feel frightened and anxious, especially when there is no real reason for this. This old house gives me the creeps. I ve never liked spiders they give me the willies …   New idioms dictionary

  • List of King of the Hill episodes — This is a list of episodes of the Fox animated television series King of the Hill. The series was originally broadcast from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010. Contents 1 Seasons 2 Episodes 2.1 Season 1: 1997 …   Wikipedia

  • willie — noun informal 1 get the willies to feel nervous or frightened 2 give sb the willies to make someone feel nervous or frightened: It gives me the willies to even think about plastic surgery. 3 (C) another spelling of willy …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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