scare the wits out of someone
- scare the wits 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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