make your skin/flesh crawl

make your skin/flesh crawl
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.

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Main Entry:crawl

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • 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 your flesh 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 …   Useful english dictionary

  • make your flesh crawl — If something makes your flesh crawl, it really scares or revolts you. ( Make your flesh creep is an alternative. Make your skin crawl is also used.) …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • make your flesh crawl —    If something makes your flesh crawl, it really scares or revolts you. ( Make your flesh creep is an alternative. Make your skin crawl is also used.)   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    Something that makes your flesh crawl fills you with… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • crawl — I UK [krɔːl] / US [krɔl] verb [intransitive] Word forms crawl : present tense I/you/we/they crawl he/she/it crawls present participle crawling past tense crawled past participle crawled * 1) a) to move along the ground on your hands and knees or… …   English dictionary

  • crawl — crawl1 [ krɔl ] verb intransitive * 1. ) crawl across/along/through etc. to move along the ground on your hands and knees or with your body close to the ground: She crawled across the floor, her eyes stinging from the smoke. They crawled through… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 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

  • skin — skin1 W2S2 [skın] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(body)¦ 2¦(from an animal)¦ 3¦(food)¦ 4¦(on a liquid)¦ 5¦(part of an object)¦ 6¦(computer)¦ 7 have (a) thin/thick skin 8 get under somebody s skin 9 by the skin of your teeth 10 make s …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • flesh — flesh1 W3 [fleʃ] n [U] [: Old English; Origin: flAsc] 1.) the soft part of the body of a person or animal that is between the skin and the bones ▪ a freshwater fish with firm white flesh 2.) the skin of the human body ▪ His flesh was red and… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • flesh — [[t]fle̱ʃ[/t]] fleshes, fleshing, fleshed 1) N UNCOUNT Flesh is the soft part of a person s or animal s body between the bones and the skin. Illness had wasted the flesh from her tall, willowy body. ...the pale pink flesh of trout and salmon. 2)… …   English dictionary

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