give someone the creeps

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give someone the creeps

1. (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.

• creep someone out, give someone the heebie-jeebies, give someone the willies, spook someone, unnerve someone