The word ‘crawl’ has a few different meanings, but none of them clearly explains the meaning of this idiom.

Listen to the video to see if you can work out what it means.

make somebody’s skin crawl – If someone or something makes your skin crawl, you think they are very unpleasant or frightening.

Imagine an insect crawling up your arm. How does that feel? Is it a pleasant sensation? For most people, it’s not.

When using English, we like to be creative with our words in order to describe our feelings in a colourful (i.e. interesting) way.

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