angiescarr

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

bobd22

don't know if correct but tranlators show



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

Richie1892

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

angiescarr

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!

angiescarr

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

Rosemary

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

Richie1892

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

me me

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

IamStu

"Me pone el bello de punta"

me me

Pelo = hiar

Bello = beautiful

IamStu

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

me me

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.

Retired in Euskadi

"Se me ponen los pellos en punta"

IamStu

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

Retired in Euskadi

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