frighten the living daylights out of someone
- frighten the living daylights out of someone
frighten the hell out of someone & frighten the pants off someone & frighten the living daylights out of someone & scare the living daylights out ofsomeone & scare the shit out of someone & scare the wits out of someone
to frighten someone badly, suddenly or both. (Use of
hell
and
shit
are crude.) •
These figures frighten the hell out of me.
•
The door blew shut and scared the shit out of me.
•
It takes a lot to scare the pants off a hardened criminal.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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frighten the (living) daylights out of someone — scare/frighten/the (living) daylights out of someone phrase to make someone suddenly feel very frightened Thesaurus: to make someone afraid or frightenedsynonym Main entry: daylights … Useful english dictionary
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frighten the living daylights out of — frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of (someone) to frighten someone very much. Don t come up behind me like that. You scared the living daylights out of me! … New idioms dictionary
scare the (living) daylights out of someone — scare/frighten/the (living) daylights out of someone phrase to make someone suddenly feel very frightened Thesaurus: to make someone afraid or frightenedsynonym Main entry: daylights … Useful english dictionary
scare the living daylights out of someone — frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of (someone) to frighten someone very much. Don t come up behind me like that. You scared the living daylights out of me! … New idioms dictionary
scare the living daylights out of — frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of (someone) to frighten someone very much. Don t come up behind me like that. You scared the living daylights out of me! … New idioms dictionary
frighten the daylights out of someone — frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of (someone) to frighten someone very much. Don t come up behind me like that. You scared the living daylights out of me! … New idioms dictionary
The Living Daylights (disambiguation) — The Living Daylights refers to the phrase to scare or beat the living daylights out of someone , ie. frighten or injure them to an extreme extent.It may refer to the following James Bond related articles:* The Living Daylights , the James Bond… … Wikipedia
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frighten the daylights out of — frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of (someone) to frighten someone very much. Don t come up behind me like that. You scared the living daylights out of me! … New idioms dictionary
scare the daylights out of — frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of (someone) to frighten someone very much. Don t come up behind me like that. You scared the living daylights out of me! … New idioms dictionary
