give someone the creeps

Definitions

1. 1

   To give someone a feeling of uneasiness or mild fright.

   • Walking through the graveyard late at night really gives me the creeps.
   • As for Leo, he did not altogether like it either, but ran his fingers through his yellow curls, and remarked that it gave him the creeps.
   • It’s the emptiness; there’s no one on the street at that time, along the river. It gives me the creeps.

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