creepy-crawlies
scary insects
TRANSLATION
creepy-crawlies = gruselige Insekten --- GOOGLE INDEX creepy-crawlies: approximately 500,000 hits
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IN THE PRESS
CREEPY CRAWLIES eaten by people across the globe will be the main attraction when an interactive museum opens in North London.
(BBC News)
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In a way similar to pot bellied pigs becoming a fashion accessory in the late 80s, reptiles, amphibians and CREEPY CRAWLIES from remote places are now the thing to be seen with.
(BBC News)
(BBC News)
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In a way similar to pot bellied pigs becoming a fashion accessory in the late 80s, reptiles, amphibians and CREEPY CRAWLIES from remote places are now the thing to be seen with.
(BBC News)
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creepy crawlies
noun
- small insects that give you a feeling of fear and disgust
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WORD ORIGIN
Creep is a verb that means 1) to move with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees 2) to move stealthily or cautiously 3) to move or proceed very slowly. ("Who is it that creeps upon Tarzan of the Apes, like a hungry lion out of the darkness?" from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs)
Creep is also a noun that describes an annoyingly unpleasant or repulsive person and "the creeps" is a sensation of fear or repugnance, as if things were crawling on one's skin (That house gives me the creeps).
Crawl, synonymous with creep, means to move slowly on the hands and knees or by dragging the body along the ground, like an insect.
We thus get a sense of how the expression "creepy crawly" evolved. For some people though, this conventional definition is wrong. Canadian actress Evangeline Lilly cited a childhood story to explain her fascination with creepy-crawly things:
"One of my biggest hobbies as a kid was covering myself in insects. In the summertime there were these big black fuzzy caterpillars and we had this big white wall on our school. There were no windows - it was just a stucco wall - and I would walk up and flatten myself and let all the caterpillars that had covered this wall crawl all over me and then I'd walk around the schoolyard and try to scare girls and impress boys."
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Don't go on safari if you hate creepy-crawlies."
noun
- small insects that give you a feeling of fear and disgust
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WORD ORIGIN
Creep is a verb that means 1) to move with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees 2) to move stealthily or cautiously 3) to move or proceed very slowly. ("Who is it that creeps upon Tarzan of the Apes, like a hungry lion out of the darkness?" from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs)
Creep is also a noun that describes an annoyingly unpleasant or repulsive person and "the creeps" is a sensation of fear or repugnance, as if things were crawling on one's skin (That house gives me the creeps).
Crawl, synonymous with creep, means to move slowly on the hands and knees or by dragging the body along the ground, like an insect.
We thus get a sense of how the expression "creepy crawly" evolved. For some people though, this conventional definition is wrong. Canadian actress Evangeline Lilly cited a childhood story to explain her fascination with creepy-crawly things:
"One of my biggest hobbies as a kid was covering myself in insects. In the summertime there were these big black fuzzy caterpillars and we had this big white wall on our school. There were no windows - it was just a stucco wall - and I would walk up and flatten myself and let all the caterpillars that had covered this wall crawl all over me and then I'd walk around the schoolyard and try to scare girls and impress boys."
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Don't go on safari if you hate creepy-crawlies."
