- pants off, frighten the
- Frighten severely.
A concise dictionary of English slang (2nd edition) . Brian Phythian. 2015.
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the pants off — informal used for emphasis after words like charm, scare, frighten, bore, and beat He can charm the pants off anybody. [=he is very charming] She scared the pants off us [=she scared us very badly] when she phoned at 3 a.m. The meeting bored the… … Useful english 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
scare the pants off — (both informal) To frighten considerably ● scare … Useful english dictionary
pants — [[t]pæ̱nts[/t]] 1) N PLURAL: also a pair of N Pants are a piece of underwear which have two holes to put your legs through and elastic around the top to hold them up round your waist or hips. [BRIT] I wash and dry myself and put on my bra and… … English dictionary
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frighten — verb the fighting in the streets frightened us Syn: scare, startle, alarm, terrify, petrify, shock, chill, panic, shake, disturb, dismay, unnerve, unman, intimidate, terrorize, cow, daunt; strike terror into, put the … Thesaurus of popular words
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terrify — verb that crazy driver terrified us Syn: petrify, horrify, frighten, scare, scare stiff, scare/frighten to death, scare/frighten the living daylights out of, scare/frighten the life out of, scare/frighten someone out of their wits, scare witless … Thesaurus of popular words
petrify — verb the thought of speaking in public petrified her Syn: terrify, horrify, frighten, scare, scare/frighten to death, scare/frighten the living daylights out of, scare/frighten the life out of, strike terror into, put the fear of God into;… … Thesaurus of popular words
