scare out of one's wits meaning
[American slang]
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.
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.
- scare one out of one's wits: [American idiom]to ...
- scare the wits out of sb: [American idiom]to ...
- scare the wits out of so: [American slang]Go ...
