scar Идиома

as scarce as hen's teeth

harum scarum

make oneself scarce

make yourself scarce

run scared

scarce as hen's teeth

scare out of one

scare the daylights out of someone

scare up

scared shitless

scared spitless

scared stiff

scared to death

scaredy cat

scare the shit out of

scarface

hardly/scarcely any

hardly/scarcely ever

scarcely any

scarcely ever

scarcely…when

scare away

scare off

scare off/away

scare sb stiff

FRIGHT - SEVERE

to scare someone severely; to frighten someone to death. (Stiff means "dead.")
• That loud noise scared me stiff
• The robber jumped out and scared us stiff.

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scarce as hens' teeth

Idiom(s): (as) scarce as hens' teeth AND scarcer than hens' teeth

Theme: AMOUNT - RARE

very scarce or nonexistent. (Chickens don't have teeth.)
•I've never seen one of those. They're as scarce as hens' teeth.
• I was told that the part needed for my car is scarcer than hens' teeth, and it would take a long time to find one.

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miscarriage of justice

Idiom(s): miscarriage of justice

Theme: JUSTICE

a wrong or mistaken decision, especially one made in a court of law.
• Sentencing the old man on a charge of murder proved to be a miscarriage of justice.
• Punishing the student for cheating was a miscarriage of justice. He was innocent.

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scare the wits out of

Idiom(s): frighten the wits out of sb AND frighten the living daylights out of sb; scare the living daylights out of sb; scare the wits out of sb

Theme: FRIGHT

to frighten someone very badly. (The living can be left out.)
• We nearly had an accident. It frightened the living daylights out of me.
• The incident scared the wits out of me.

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scare the living daylights out of

Idiom(s): frighten the wits out of sb AND frighten the living daylights out of sb; scare the living daylights out of sb; scare the wits out of sb

Theme: FRIGHT

to frighten someone very badly. (The living can be left out.)
• We nearly had an accident. It frightened the living daylights out of me.
• The incident scared the wits out of me.

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scare sb to death

Idiom(s): frighten someone to death AND scare someone to death

Theme: FRIGHT - SEVERE

to frighten someone severely.
• The dentist always frightens me to death.
• She scared me to death when she screamed.

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scare one out of one's wits

Idiom(s): frighten one out of one's wits AND scare one out of one's wits

Theme: FRIGHT

to frighten one very badly.
• Oh! That loud noise scared me out of my wits.
• I'll give him a good scolding and frighten him out of his wits.

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scarcer than hens' teeth

Idiom(s): (as) scarce as hens' teeth AND scarcer than hens' teeth

Theme: AMOUNT - RARE

very scarce or nonexistent. (Chickens don't have teeth.)
•I've never seen one of those. They're as scarce as hens' teeth.
• I was told that the part needed for my car is scarcer than hens' teeth, and it would take a long time to find one.

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Scarlet woman

This idiom is used as a pejorative term for a sexually promiscuous woman, especially an adulteress.

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fraidy-cat|cat|fraid|fraid-cat|fraidy|scared|scare

n., informal A shy person; someone who is easily frightened. Usually used by or to children. Tom was a fraidy-cat and wouldn't go in the water.

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hardly any|hardly|scarcely|scarcely any

Almost no or almost none; very few. Hardly any of the students did well on the test, so the teacher explained the lesson again. Charles and his friends each had three cookies, and when they went out, hardly any cookies were left.

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hardly ever|hardly|scarcely|scarcely ever

adv. phr. Very rarely; almost never; seldom. It hardly ever snows in Florida. Johnny hardly ever reads a book.

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harum-scarum|harum|scarum

harum-scarum¹ adv., informal In a careless, disorderly or reckless way. Jim does his homework harum-scarum, and that is why his schoolwork is so poor.
harum-scarum² adj., informal Careless, wild, or disorderly in one's acts or performance; reckless. Jack is such a harum-scarum boy that you can never depend on him to do anything right.

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make oneself scarce|make|scarce

v. phr., slang To leave quickly; go away. The boys made themselves scarce when they saw the principal coming to stop their noise. A wise mouse makes himself scarce when a cat is nearby.

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run scared|run|scared

v. phr. To expect defeat, as in a political campaign. The one-vote defeat caused him to run scared in every race thereafter.

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scare away|scare|scare off

v. phr. To cause to flee; frighten away. Jake is a confirmed bachelor; the best way to scare him off is to start talking about marriage.

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scare out of one's wits|daylights|out of one's wit

v. phr., informal To frighten very much. The owl's hooting scared him out of his wits. The child was scared stiff in the dentist's chair. Pete's ghost story scared the daylights out of the smaller boys.

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scare up|scare|scrape|scrape up

v., informal To find, collect, or get together with some effort when needed. The boy scared up enough money to go to college. "Will you stay for supper?" she asked. "I can scare up enough for us all." He managed to scrape up the money for his speeding fine.

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scarce

scarce
In addition to the idiom beginning with scarce, also see make oneself scarce.

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scare

scare
In addition to the idioms beginning with scare, also see run scared.
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- scare out of one's wits
- scare up

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scare out of one's wits

scare out of one's wits
Also, frighten out of one's wits; scare stiff or silly or to death or the living daylights out of or the pants off. Terrify, make one panic, as in When the lights went out, she was scared out of her wits, or I was scared stiff that I would fail the driver's test. The first of these hyperbolic terms, scare out of one's wits, is the oldest and, like silly, suggests one is frightened enough to lose one's mind. The verb scare dates from about 1200, and out of one's wits was first recorded in William Tyndale's translation of the Bible in 1526 (I Corinthians 14:23): “Will they not say that ye are out of your wits?” They were first put together in 1697, the same period from which came scare out of one's seven senses, a usage now obsolete. The variant using daylights, which sometimes occurs without living, dates from the 1950s. Daylights at one time referred to the eyes but here means “vital organs.” Frighten to death was first recorded in Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge (1840) and scare to death probably appeared about the same time. However, to death used as an intensifier dates from the 1500s. These terms allude to the fact that a sudden fright can precipitate cardiac arrest. Scare stiff, first recorded in 1905, alludes to the temporary paralysis that can accompany intense fear. For the last variant, see also under pants off, the.