jump in (one's) skin

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To start or recoil, as from shock, surprise, or fear. I positively jumped in my skin when I heard the door bang open in the middle of the night.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Dmitar	-	Croatian, Serbian
Apollinaire	-	French (Rare)
Wiktoria	veek-TAWR-yah	Polish
Oonagh	OO-na	Irish
Yehuda	-	Hebrew
Nora	NAWR-ə (English), NO-rah (German)	Irish, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Italian