MAKE ONE'S FLESH CREEP Definition & Meaning

make one's flesh creep

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, make one's skin crawl . Cause one to shudder with disgust or fear, as in That picture makes my flesh creep , or Cockroaches make my skin crawl . This idiom alludes to the feeling of having something crawl over one's body or skin. The first term appeared in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1727): “Something in their countenance made my flesh creep with a horror I cannot express.” The variant dates from the late 1800s.

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In former days, the hill-peasants assert that it bred in quite low rocks, and several such abandoned eyries have been pointed out to us: but we have only seen its nest in the most stupendous rock-walls—places that make one's flesh creep to survey.

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Doesn't it make one's flesh creep to have a mother like that?

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If this had happened in a higher order of the animal world, it would make one's flesh creep to watch the Carabus half immersed in the big Cockchafer and rooting out his entrails.

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The mere mention of the place was enough to make one’s flesh creep.

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But that," I said, "would be too horrible for anything—to turn the terrors of death into a sort of conjuring trick—a dramatic entertainment, to make one's flesh creep!

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