- scare you to death
- scare (you) to death
to make you feel extremely frightened.
Related vocabulary: scare the pants off you
David suddenly appeared like a ghost in the doorway and scared me to death.
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scare you to death
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scare to death — scare (you) to death to make you feel extremely frightened. David suddenly appeared like a ghost in the doorway and scared me to death. Related vocabulary: scare the pants off you … New idioms dictionary
scare the pants off you — scare the pants off (you) to frighten you very much. Spiders scare the pants off me. Usage notes: also used with other verbs to emphasize an extreme reaction: Sunbathing bores the pants off me. Hugh always beats the pants off me in tennis.… … New idioms dictionary
scare the pants off — (you) to frighten you very much. Spiders scare the pants off me. Usage notes: also used with other verbs to emphasize an extreme reaction: Sunbathing bores the pants off me. Hugh always beats the pants off me in tennis. Related vocabulary: scare… … New idioms dictionary
death — W1S1 [deθ] n [: Old English;] 1.) a) [U] the end of the life of a person or animal ≠ ↑birth death of ▪ The death of his mother came as a tremendous shock. ▪ Cancer is the leading cause of death in women. ▪ How Danielle … Dictionary of contemporary English
scare — I UK [skeə(r)] / US [sker] verb Word forms scare : present tense I/you/we/they scare he/she/it scares present participle scaring past tense scared past participle scared * a) [transitive] to make someone feel frightened or worried I m sorry, I… … English dictionary
scare — scare1 [ sker ] verb * transitive to make someone feel frightened or worried: I m sorry, I didn t mean to scare you. scare the life/daylights out of someone (=scare someone very much): What are you doing in there? You scared the life out of me.… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
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scare — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ major, nasty, terrible ▪ a major health scare ▪ food, health ▪ AIDS … Collocations dictionary
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