make one's blood run cold
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It is enough to make one's blood run cold to think of it.
From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay
The thought was enough to make one’s blood run cold.
From Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad
It's 'nough to make one's blood run cold to see the highty-tighty airs that woman puts on.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley
From just below rose such a squeaking and a scraping as would make one's blood run cold.
From Mary's Rainbow by Mary Edward Feehan
It seems to make one's blood run cold.
From The Master Builder by Edmund Gosse
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