make someone's flesh creep

English

Verb

make someone's flesh creep (third-person singular simple present makes someone's flesh creep, present participle making someone's flesh creep, simple past and past participle made someone's flesh creep)

  1. To disgust or frighten someone.
    I can't bear snakes. They make my flesh creep.
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Leaves Lagado, Arrives at Maldonada. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 97:
      […] we all three enter'd the Gate of the Palace between two Rows of Guards, armed and dreſſed after a very antick manner, and ſomething in their Countenances that made my Fleſh creep with a Horror I cannot expreſs.

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