make someone's skin crawl

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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.

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