scare someone stiff meaning

• [American idiom]
  to scare someone severely; to frighten someone to death. (Stiff means ""dead."")
  • That loud noise scared me stiff
  • The robber jumped out and scared us stiff.
  

• "scare someone stiff" meaning in Chinese: 使人吓得呆若木鸡, 吓傻
• "scare someone stiff" meaning in Japanese: （人）をひどく驚かせる、（恐怖｛きょうふ｝で）（人を）動けなくする、（人）に思わず硬直｛こうちょく｝するような驚きを...