make one's hair stand on end

Idioms  

1. Also, make one's hair curl. Terrify one, as in The very thought of an earthquake makes my hair stand on end, or Diving off a high board is enough to make my hair curl. The first term, first recorded in 1534, alludes to goose pimples prompted by fear, which cause the hairs around them to stand up. The variant dates from the mid-1900s.

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make one's hair stand on end

I’m sure I don’t remember giving my mother any particular trouble when I was Matilda’s age, but the stories I’ve heard to-day are enough to make one’s hair stand on end.

From Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

There are dealers in wigs and essences who are enough to make one's hair stand on end; they care only to sell you bottles.

From Unconscious Comedians by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

And something did happen, though not of a character to make one's hair stand on end.

From The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai

The others were telling stories, calculated to make one's hair stand on end, about signs and warnings, and their horrible fulfillment.

From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Malcolm Fraser

Today the mox progeniem daturos vitiosiorem would make one's hair stand on end.

From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole

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