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send_shivers_down_someone's_spine
send shivers down someone's spine
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Verb
send shivers down someone's spine (third-person singular simple present sends shivers down someone's spine, present participle sending shivers down someone's spine, simple past and past participle sent shivers down someone's spine)
- (idiomatic, informal) To terrify; to make someone feel extremely nervous.
- Hearing that the killer escaped prison sent shivers down my spine.