Idiom
get the wind up
Meaning
To become frightened or disturbed.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The strange noise in the dark got the wind up.”
“When the boss started asking questions about the missing files, the employees really got the wind up.”
“The sudden silence in the forest got the wind up, as the travelers sensed they were being watched by something unseen.”
Examples
simple
“The strange noise in the dark got the wind up.”
contextual
“When the boss started asking questions about the missing files, the employees really got the wind up.”
complex
“The sudden silence in the forest got the wind up, as the travelers sensed they were being watched by something unseen.”
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