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How do you express "it makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck" please?

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don't know if correct but tranlators show



hace que el cabello de pie en la parte trasera de mi cuello

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If scared then it would be...me pone los pelos de punta

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No I didn't want google translate ;-) I already got that but it sounded clunky. I really need what the spaniards would say for that situation rather than what English people say translated. But thanks for trying! :)

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that sounds a bit more appropriate. But does anyone know if that's a 'dicho'? or another that would cover it?

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Does that mean that you want one of their idioms regarding a specific thing such as fear, annoyance, anxiety or something similar because I have a Spanish Idioms book that I have looked in for the phrase that you have said but cannot find it. So if you tell me the type of situation I will have another look for you.

Rosemary

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Yep that's a "dicho", according to my Spanish wife anyway;)

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That is what I would say too.

And there is always the "me da escalofrios" too, if you want to say, it gives me the creeps, willies etc.

http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/t...calofr%C3%ADos

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"Me pone el bello de punta"

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Pelo = hiar

Bello = beautiful

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Bello is another word for hair! "Fine hair".
So what´s your point meme?

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Sorry I posted on what I thought you had heard and written, and mistakenly thought you have misheard the saying.

I know it is another word for fine hair, but as it is a "saying" the word used is pelo/s.

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"Se me ponen los pellos en punta"

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I´ll take the word of my bi-lingual Granadian wife on this one.

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Sorry, should read "pelos", not "pellos".