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/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 — 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 — (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 — verb cause to lose courage (Freq. 2) dashed by the refusal • Syn: ↑daunt, ↑dash, ↑pall, ↑frighten off, ↑scare away, ↑frighten away, ↑scare … Useful 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 — scare1 [skeə US sker] v [Date: 1100 1200; : Old Norse; Origin: skirra, from skjarr shy, fearful ] 1.) [T] to make someone feel frightened = ↑frighten →↑afraid ▪ Loud noises can scare animals or birds. scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out… … Dictionary of contemporary English
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
scare — 1 verb 1 (T) to make someone feel frightened: Ignore him, he s just trying to scare us. | scare the hell/life/shit out of sb (=scare someone very much): You scared the hell out of me jumping out like that! 2 (I) to become frightened: I don t… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
scare — [[t]ske͟ə(r)[/t]] scares, scaring, scared 1) VERB If something scares you, it frightens or worries you. [V n] You re scaring me... [V n] What scares me most is that I m going to end up not being married... [V n … English dictionary
