make someone's blood run cold
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make someone's blood run cold (third-person singular simple present makes someone's blood run cold, present participle making someone's blood run cold, simple past and past participle made someone's blood run cold)
- (idiomatic) To cause a person to feel fear, horror, dread, or strong foreboding; to chill.
- 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 20, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
- Here, he read of dreadful crimes that made the blood run cold.
- 1897, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 7, in Liza of Lambeth, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published [1921], →OCLC:
- "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 February 24, John Otis, “Colombia's Drug Extraditions: Are They Worth It?”, in 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.
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cause a person to feel fear
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- “make blood run cold”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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