scare out of one's wits

[scare out of one's wits] or [scare stiff] or [scare the daylights out of] {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./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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