Idiom
cold chills
Meaning
Feelings of fear.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That scary movie gave me cold chills.”
“The strange noise in the empty hallway gave me cold chills, so I quickly locked the door.”
“As she read the mysterious letter in the dim light, cold chills ran down her spine, confirming her worst fears about the house.”
Examples
simple
“That scary movie gave me cold chills.”
contextual
“The strange noise in the empty hallway gave me cold chills, so I quickly locked the door.”
complex
“As she read the mysterious letter in the dim light, cold chills ran down her spine, confirming her worst fears about the house.”
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