make flesh crawl
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Related to make skin crawl: make one's skin crawl
make (one's) flesh crawl
To cause one to feel disgusted, frightened, or unnerved. Having to look all those surgical photos made my flesh crawl. The mere mention of cockroaches makes her flesh crawl.
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make someone's flesh crawl
and make someone's skin crawlto cause someone's skin to feel funny or get goose pimples through fright. Just to hear the story of the killings made my flesh crawl. The horror movie made our skin crawl.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
make your ˈflesh creep/crawl
make you feel afraid or full of disgust: This is a movie to make your flesh creep. ♢ The way he looked at me made my flesh crawl.Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017