scare Идиома
run scared
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
scare away
We keep a cat to scare the mice off．我们养猫吓唬老鼠。
The birds were scared away by the dog．鸟被狗吓跑了。
scare off
We keep a cat to scare the mice off．我们养猫吓唬老鼠。
The birds were scared away by the dog．鸟被狗吓跑了。
scare off/away
We keep a cat to scare the mice off．我们养猫吓唬老鼠。
The birds were scared away by the dog．鸟被狗吓跑了。
scare sb stiff
Idiom(s): scare sb stiffTheme: 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.
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 sbTheme: 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.
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 sbTheme: 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.
scare sb to death
Idiom(s): frighten someone to death AND scare someone to deathTheme: FRIGHT - SEVERE
to frighten someone severely.
• The dentist always frightens me to death.
• She scared me to death when she screamed.
scare one out of one's wits
Idiom(s): frighten one out of one's wits AND scare one out of one's witsTheme: 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.
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.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.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.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.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.scare
scareIn addition to the idioms beginning with scare, also see run scared.
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- scare out of one's wits
- scare up
scare out of one's wits
scare out of one's witsAlso, 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.
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