make someone's blood run cold
English
Alternative forms
- make the blood run cold
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Verb
make someone's blood run cold
- (idiomatic) To cause a person to feel fear, horror, dread, or strong forboding.
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, ch. 20:
- Here, he read of dreadful crimes that made the blood run cold.
- 1897, W. Somerset Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, ch. 7:
- "Why, it mikes yer blood run cold: they 'ang a man on the stige; oh, it mide me creep all over!"
- 1914, Lucy Maud Montgomery, "The Man on the Train":
- "It just makes my blood run cold to read about it. And to think that the man who did it is still around the country somewhere—plotting other murders."
- 2009 Feb. 24, John Otis, "Colombia's Drug Extraditions: Are They Worth It?," Time:
- [T]he prospect of doing hard time in an American penitentiary was about the only thing that made Pablo Escobar's blood run cold.
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, ch. 20:
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:frighten
Translations
cause a person to feel fear
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See also
- one's blood runs cold
- make someone's blood boil
References
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