give someone the creeps
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Verb
editgive someone the creeps (third-person singular simple present gives someone the creeps, present participle giving someone the creeps, simple past gave someone the creeps, past participle given someone the creeps)
- (idiomatic) To give someone a feeling of uneasiness or mild fright.
- Walking through the graveyard late at night really gives me the creeps.
- 1997, Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked into Doors:
- It’s the emptiness; there’s no one on the street at that time, along the river. It gives me the creeps.
Synonyms
edit- creep someone out, give someone the heebie-jeebies, give someone the willies, spook someone, unnerve someone, give someone the collywobbles
Translations
editgive someone a feeling of uneasiness or mild fright
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