make your flesh crawl

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)
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   Something that makes your flesh crawl fills you with disgust or makes you feel very nervous.
   

Just talking about snakes makes my flesh crawl!


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  • 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

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  • 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. • • • Main Entry: ↑crawl …   Useful english dictionary

  • make (someone's) flesh creep — make (someone s) flesh crawl/creep if someone or something makes your flesh creep, you think they are extremely unpleasant or frightening. Spiders and insects really make my flesh crawl. (often in present tenses) I hate that guy in accounts, he… …   New idioms dictionary

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  • 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

  • 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

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