
What Does “send shivers down someone’s spine” mean?
Definition:
to terrify; to make someone feel extremely nervous.
Example(s)
Hearing that the killer escaped prison sent shivers down my spine.
This idiom is in the parts of the body category.

to terrify; to make someone feel extremely nervous.
Hearing that the killer escaped prison sent shivers down my spine.
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