Idiom
make someone's skin crawl
Meaning
To frighten or disgust.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That creepy spider makes my skin crawl.”
“The way he stared at me during the meeting really made my skin crawl.”
“The abandoned house was filled with strange shadows and unsettling noises that made everyone's skin crawl as they walked through the dark hallway.”
Examples
simple
“That creepy spider makes my skin crawl.”
contextual
“The way he stared at me during the meeting really made my skin crawl.”
complex
“The abandoned house was filled with strange shadows and unsettling noises that made everyone's skin crawl as they walked through the dark hallway.”
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