In summer, when you walked through a field of dry grass, you stamped your feet to scare off snakes.
A deadly outbreak of “bird flu” in Hong Kong has killed six people and scared off tourists.
Intensive border patrols probably scared smugglers off.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
scare off someone — scare off (someone) to cause someone not to invest money in something. A TV show as experimental and unusual as this one could scare off advertisers. The country s financial crisis has scared away potential foreign investors … New idioms dictionary
scare off something — scare off (someone/something) to cause someone or something to go or stay away. In summer, when you walked through a field of dry grass, you stamped your feet to scare off snakes. A deadly outbreak of “bird flu” in Hong Kong has killed six people … New idioms dictionary
scare off — (someone/something) to cause someone or something to go or stay away. In summer, when you walked through a field of dry grass, you stamped your feet to scare off snakes. A deadly outbreak of “bird flu” in Hong Kong has killed six people and… … New idioms dictionary
scare off — (someone) to cause someone not to invest money in something. A TV show as experimental and unusual as this one could scare off advertisers. The country s financial crisis has scared away potential foreign investors … New idioms dictionary
scare (or bore etc.) the pants off someone — informal make someone extremely scared, bored, etc. → pants … English new terms dictionary
scare the pants off someone — scare the pants off (someone) See at: caught with pants down … New idioms dictionary
scare the pants off someone — bore/annoy/scare/etc the pants off someone informal phrase to make someone feel very bored, annoyed, scared etc Opera bores the pants off him. Thesaurus: to make someone feel a particular emotion or strong emotionssynonym … Useful english dictionary
scare off — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you scare off or scare away a person or animal, you frighten them so that they go away. [V P n (not pron)] ...an alarm to scare off an attacker. [V n P] ...the problem of scaring birds away from airport runways. Syn: frighten… … English dictionary
scare off — phrasal verb scare away or scare off [transitive] Word forms scare away : present tense I/you/we/they scare away he/she/it scares away present participle scaring away past tense scared away past participle scared away 1) to make someone feel so… … English dictionary
scare the pants off someone — tv. to righten someone suddenly. □ The piano lid fell and scared the pants off my parents. □ It takes a lot to scare the pants off a hardened criminal … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
