1. Home
2. Idioms
3. send a shiver up (someone's) spine

send a shiver up (someone's) spine

---

---

send a shiver up (someone's) spine

To cause an intense feeling of excitement, exhilaration, nervousness, or fear in someone. The way that sonata swells always sends a shiver up my spine. It sent a shiver up my spine when Dorothy gave me such an amorous look. Can we get out of here? This creepy old house is sending a shiver up my spine!

See also: send, shiver, spine, up