Nearby Words
jump out of one's skin
Idioms & Phrases
jump out of one's skin
Be extremely startled or frightened. For example, When he crept up on me so quietly, I nearly jumped out of my skin. [Early 1900s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Jump out of one's skin
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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