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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".

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Thanks everyone I quite like Me da escalofrios but I'll probably use Iamstu's phrase since I'm in Andalucia and I've heard of short hair like that on your arms and back of neck) being called belos as well.

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is this a phrase that actually translates - not in pure language sense but in the sense that a Spaniard would not actually say that but something different :confused:

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Yes Domino, this phrase is widely by Spaniards.

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thanks Stu, I know that some phrases don't "translate" in the meaning sense, just wondered if this is one of them.

:)

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How far do you go though?

An English person may say "I'm coming" whereas a Spanish person in the same situation may say "Voy!" If you translate directly the meaning is almost opposite, yet they are saying the same thing!

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I would say around where we live, it is the use of the word "pelos" and not vello.

And if it was a man saying this they would not usually use the word vello, as it is a feminine word to describe body hair.

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Yep. That's what stands on end!
:D

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It surley does Angiescarr. ;)