give someone the creeps

Meaning: (idiomatic)To give someone a feeling ofuneasinessormildfright.Walking through the graveyard late at night reallygives me the creeps.1886October –1887January,H[enry] Rider Haggard, “‘Give Me a Black Goat!’”, inShe: A History of Adventure, London:Longmans, Green, and Co., published1887,→OCLC,page216:As for Leo, he did not altogether like it either, but ran his fingers through his yellow curls, and remarked that itgave him 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. Itgives me the creeps.

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