make someone's skin crawl

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Verb

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

1. (idiomatic) To frighten or disgust.

   The sound of fingernails on a chalkboard just makes my skin crawl.

Translations

to disturb, bother, frighten, disgust

• Hungarian: borsódzik tőle a háta
• Russian: мурашки по коже бегут

See also

• heebie-jeebies
• make someone's flesh creep
• make someone's teeth itch