goose bumps

goose bumps

Bumps on one's skin where one's body hair stands on end as the result of an intense feeling of cold, nervousness, anxiety, excitement, or fear. I got goose bumps watching that scary movie last night! Their concert was so amazing, I got goose bumps when they played their first song! It's so cold in here that I'm getting goose bumps.
See also: bump, goose
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*goose bumps

 and *goose pimples
Fig. a prickly feeling related to having bumps on one's skin due to fear, excitement, or cold. (*Typically: get ~ have ~ give someone ∼.) When I hear that old song, I get goose bumps. I never have goose pimples, but my teeth chatter when it's cold.
See also: bump, goose
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • at the end of (one's) fingertips
  • at (one's) doorstep
  • at doorstep
  • (from) top to toe
  • at expense
  • at somebody's expense
  • at someone's expense
  • at (one's) expense
  • be remembered as (something)
  • be remembered as/for something
References in periodicals archive
Lead researcher Ya-Chieh Hsu from Harvard University's Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department and her team discovered that the nerves involved in goose bumps are not like other nerves.
Goose Bumps Stimulates Hair Growth, Scientists Find
The pursuit of goose bumps is why we play, why we do the long tones, why we suffer through Kling and Kopprasch.
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David Beckham has admitted the chance to pull on the famous red shirt and play for Manchester United at Old Trafford again will give him goose bumps.
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Each time he says "it was only influenza," he raises bigger goose bumps. Expect to be appalled.
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In a BBC TV interview he said: "Every time I walk through the gates I get goose bumps.
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* Teach music that gives you goose bumps. Give music kids can play-not too hard or too long.
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Make this hacky sack and practice your kick bag footwork to keep those goose bumps at bay.
Nifty-swifty hacky sack
Live is a different experience where nerves turn into adrenaline, giving you goose bumps. When people record they tend to add more comforts.
The Kills
"Runny eyes, runny nose, goose bumps, simultaneous sweats and chills, cramp-like symptoms."
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In particular "Poem to Some Women ..." is guaranteed to bring goose bumps to the listener if he/she can even sit through the persona piece about the woman who leaves her seven-year-old at a crack house for a week in exchange for a fix.
Full Moon of Sonia
on May 6 and later felt goose bumps of excitement when they took part in Megaconference Jr., the first Web-based videoconference for K-12 students.
Megaconference Jr. = mega success
When we get cold or frightened, we get goose bumps, which cause the tiny hairs on our skin to stand straight up.
Skin-sational: skin facts
Example: I get goose bumps when I watch a scary movie.
Don't be a scaredy cat!
The "goose bumps" have hairs growing from the centers.
Keratosis pilaris