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

It's enough to make one's hair stand on end.

From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Reuter, Fritz

We gave nothing, and they commented upon us with a gravity of moral reprobation quite fit to make one's hair stand on end, even with New England versus beggar behind one.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

And now, my Hannah'li, I tell you once and for all, it is enough to make one's hair stand on end, and hardly to be believed!

From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb

A thing to make one's hair stand on end!

From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz

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 Cole, John William