make sb's skin crawl
If someone or something makes your skin crawl, you think they are very unpleasant or frightening:
Just thinking about the way he had touched her made her skin crawl.
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Unpleasant people in general
- a dog in the manger idiom
- a nasty piece of work idiom
- a tough/hard nut idiom
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- bad lot
- intruder
- know-all
- know-it-all
- leech
- malcontent
- rotter
- runt
- sadist
- scum
- scumbag
- undesirables
- vermin
- villain
- villain of the piece idiom
- viper
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Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
Frightening and scaring