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
Iah	-	Egyptian Mythology
Kane	-	Irish
Paraskeva	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian
Hurik	-	Armenian
Rafael	rah-fah-EL (Spanish), RAH-fah-el (German)	Spanish, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Slovene, Macedonian
Margarethe	mahr-gah-RE-tə (German)	German, Danish