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Idiom: Send shivers down your spine
Here we are, only two months until Christmas, and we’re going to discuss what sends shivers down your spine.
Soon everything will be love and joy, peace and happiness, cinnamon and peppermint.
Halloween, however, is a frightfully delightful time of year.
It’s a time to think of spiders crawling across your face as you sleep, cockroaches dancing on your countertop or waking up from your worst nightmare only to discover it isn’t a nightmare.
Yeah, that’s what Halloween is all about – sending shivers down your spine.
Of course, it’s all in good fun until it isn’t fun anymore.
When something sends shivers down your spine, you shake unintentionally because you feel fear, nervousness, or maybe you are incredibly excited.
Dark shadows on a foggy night, when rain seems to hang suspended in the air instead of falling as it should send shivers down anyone’s spine.
Yes, you may try to whistle past the graveyard to lift your spirits, but what do you do if someone whistles back?
What do you do if you hear your name gently whispered through the darkness?
Those are the moments that send shivers down your spine.
Yes, you should be dry and toasty warm under your brand-name umbrella and inside your designer coat.
Unfortunately, you can’t escape the feeling that there’s a cold and clammy hand just inches away from the back of your neck.
Do you look?
Walk faster?
Run?
Jack, the Ripper, has been dead for a long time.
Unless he has been reborn again and again, each time searching for…YOU!
Happy Halloween!
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