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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 — (someone) See at: caught with pants down … New idioms dictionary
scare the pants off — (both informal) To frighten considerably ● scare … Useful english dictionary
scare the pants off — [beat/bore/scare etc.] the pants off (someone) informal if someone or something beats, bores, scares etc. the pants off someone, they beat, bore, or scare them completely. I hate sunbathing. It bores the pants off me. Horror films scare the pants … New idioms 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 someone — scare the pants off (someone) See at: caught with pants down … New idioms dictionary
scare the pants off — ► scare (or bore etc.) the pants off informal make extremely scared, bored, etc. Main Entry: ↑pants … English terms dictionary
scare the pants off someone — tv. to righten someone suddenly. □ The piano lid fell and scared the pants off my parents. □ It takes a lot to scare the pants off a hardened criminal … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
scare the pants off someone — bore/annoy/scare/etc the pants off someone informal phrase to make someone feel very bored, annoyed, scared etc Opera bores the pants off him. Thesaurus: to make someone feel a particular emotion or strong emotionssynonym … Useful english dictionary
scare the pants off somebody — bore, scare, etc. the ˈpants off sb idiom (informal) to make sb extremely bored, frightened, etc. Main entry: ↑pantsidiom … Useful english dictionary
