Jake is a confirmed bachelor; the best way to scare him off is to start talking about marriage.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
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 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 — 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 off — phr verb Scare off is used with these nouns as the object: ↑investor … Collocations dictionary
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 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 — 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 — v. scare away, deter, frighten away, expel; cause to become afraid, cause to lose courage … English contemporary dictionary
