hair-raising

hair-raising

Frightening, chilling, or disturbing. With so much traffic, cycling in this city can be a hair-raising experience. Walking through that graveyard last night was quite hair-raising. The film is very good, but it's a bit of a hair-raising experience; it doesn't shy away from intense subject matter.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • harrowing experience
  • graveyard shift
  • boneyard
  • factory
  • bone factory
  • give (one) the heebie-jeebies
  • give (something) a go
  • piss off
  • scare out of
  • scare out of (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
rj huddersfield examiner Most discussed stories on Facebook Hair-raising! Car ploughs through Waterloo salon wall - just feet away from staff and customers Was there yesterday and feel so sorry for the girls.
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HEAD START
HAIR-RAISING A mountain biker experiences the thrill of the Kidland downhill course.
IT'S ALL DOWNHILL FOR NORTH MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDERS
The tale is told at a hair-raising pace, generously spiced with ironic asides which had me chuckling throughout, while completely hooked on the adventure.
Skulduggery Pleasant
HAIR-RAISING fundraiser George Holmes shows off his amazing long locks hours before his first trim in SEVEN years.
George is a lock star!
They also performed several ecstatic duets for which they became famous, including Assaf Messerer's Moskowski Waltz, which featured hair-raising leaps and catches, and wild, air-borne lifts and runs.
Raisa Struchkova (1925-2005)
Original, entirely absorbing, and frequently hair-raising, this Gothic police procedural is also as grim and lurid as one can get.
Dark Eye
Slashified pool riding, hair-raising Washington Street skate footage, street skating straight from the gutter, and slams peppered throughout that made your face wince to watch them.
The Washington Street skatepark art shmooze
Ward wrote, "In place of such superstitious hype, I offer far more dangerous, hair-raising, melodramatic, and magical tales."
Voodoo Queen: the Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau
Extreme sports fans, get ready for the latest hair-raising event: extreme ironing.
Extreme ironing gathers steam
While studying mice, Nini Guo--a biologist at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland--found a hair-raising gene (unit of hereditary material), named "Frizzled6." Guo says a similar gene is found in people too.
Bed head?
Bayona should be reminded that these letters are read primarily by highly logical business people who are discerning once they have all the hair-raising facts on Peru at that time: hyperinflation, terrorism, and drug trafficking.
Letters
Members of the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA) throughout the Midlands had a hair-raising time on Friday when they took part in Comic Relief's Red Nose Day 2003.
Hair-raising fun in aid of Comic Relief
Balashova, who is the main editor of the Sluzhenye NGOs' newsletter, learned of these hair-raising statistics at a TB conference and was inspired to launch the initiative.
Return of the White Flowers: (White Flower Day - a popular charitable event started back in 1910)
HAIR-RAISING: Wales celebrated a silver medal in the Commonwealth Games last night as Matthew Elias pushed England's Chris Rawlinson all the way in the men's 400m hurdles.
HIGH HURDLER: Elias cannot believe he has surged to a silver medal