- make your flesh crawl
- Make your flesh crawlIf 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.)
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make your 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.) (Dorking School Dictionary) *** Something that makes your flesh crawl fills you with… … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
make your flesh crawl — make your skin/flesh/crawl phrase to give you a very unpleasant and slightly frightened feeling Thesaurus: to make someone afraid or frightenedsynonym Main entry: crawl … Useful english dictionary
make your skin crawl — make your skin/flesh/crawl phrase to give you a very unpleasant and slightly frightened feeling Thesaurus: to make someone afraid or frightenedsynonym Main entry: crawl * * * make your ˈskin crawl … Useful english dictionary
make (someone's) flesh crawl — 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
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
flesh — [[t]fle̱ʃ[/t]] fleshes, fleshing, fleshed 1) N UNCOUNT Flesh is the soft part of a person s or animal s body between the bones and the skin. Illness had wasted the flesh from her tall, willowy body. ...the pale pink flesh of trout and salmon. 2)… … English dictionary
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
