Idiom
give someone the creeps
Meaning
To give someone a feeling of uneasiness or mild fright.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That old house gives me the creeps.”
“The way he stares without blinking really gives me the creeps.”
“There was something about the silent, empty corridor that gave her the creeps, though she could not say exactly why.”
Examples
simple
“That old house gives me the creeps.”
contextual
“The way he stares without blinking really gives me the creeps.”
complex
“There was something about the silent, empty corridor that gave her the creeps, though she could not say exactly why.”
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