hair-curling

Definitions

Exciting, astonishing, frightening, or horrifying.

idiomatic

Examples

“But, first and foremost, "Retreat with Stilwell" is a rip snorting, spine tingling, hair curling story, and as such it is quite likely to hold⟳ you.”

“Many of Mr. Dahl's stories are hair-curling tales of man's inhumanity to man, particularly woman's to man.”

“[T]he era of good feeling Carter has created in his party . . . could be a prelude to an activist presidency bent on shaking and changing the status quo with hair-curling audacity.”

“If the walls . . . could talk⟳, they would reveal⟳ some hair-curling secrets.”

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