jump in one's skin

verb

To start with fright.

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Meanings

verbjump in one's skin (third-person singular simple present jumps in one's skin, present participle jumping in one's skin, simple past and past participle jumped in one's skin)

present singular third person jumps in one's skin · participle present jumping in one's skin · participle past jumped in one's skin · past jumped in one's skin

  1. idiomaticTo start with fright.
    1 more example

    The neighborhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor floor, and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.

    1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 4, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
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