put/get the wind up sb
UKto make someone feel worried about their situation:
Tell them your father's a policeman - that'll put the wind up them!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Frightening and scaring
- chill
- chill sb to the bone/marrow idiom
- cow
- creep
- curdle
- daylight
- flesh
- frighten
- make your flesh crawl/creep idiom
- overawe
- petrify
- put the fear of God into you idiom
- scare
- scare, frighten, etc. the (living) daylights out of sb idiom
- send chills down/up sb's spine idiom
- send shivers down/up sb's spine idiom
- send shudders/a shudder down your spine idiom
- shiver (up and) down your spine idiom
- shudder
- wit
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