heebie-jeebies
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I’d love to understand why horror films that I find excruciatingly dull give others the heebie-jeebies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
You’re living with a large cushion that should ease any of those financial heebie-jeebies.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026
That is a double dose of the heebie-jeebies delivered in one day to nervous Tories.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024
But even I have to admit that the clowns I come across from old circuses give me the heebie-jeebies.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2022
He had the jitters and the heebie-jeebies, a feeling deep in his stomach that something was entirely wrong.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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