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.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
scare the daylights out of someone — If you scare the daylights out of someone, you terrify them. (This can be made even stronger by saying the living daylights .) … The small dictionary of idiomes
scare the daylights out of someone — If you scare the daylights out of someone, you terrify them. (This can be made even stronger by saying the living daylights .) (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
scare the daylights out of — If something scares the (living) daylights out of you, it terrifies you. The sudden screaming scared the daylights out of me … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
scare the daylights out of smb — frighten very much Falling off her bicycle scared the daylights out of her … Idioms and examples
scare the daylights out of — frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of (someone) to frighten someone very much. Don t come up behind me like that. You scared the living daylights out of me! … New idioms dictionary
scare the daylights out of someone — frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of (someone) to frighten someone very much. Don t come up behind me like that. You scared the living daylights out of me! … New idioms dictionary
Scare the daylights out of — frighten deeply, scare very much … English contemporary dictionary
frighten the daylights out of — frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of (someone) to frighten someone very much. Don t come up behind me like that. You scared the living daylights out of me! … New idioms dictionary
frighten the daylights out of someone — frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of (someone) to frighten someone very much. Don t come up behind me like that. You scared the living daylights out of me! … New idioms dictionary
scare the (living) daylights out of someone — scare/frighten/the (living) daylights out of someone phrase to make someone suddenly feel very frightened Thesaurus: to make someone afraid or frightenedsynonym Main entry: daylights … Useful english dictionary
