scare the wits out of sb meaning
[American idiom]
to frighten someone very badly. (The living can be left out.)
• We nearly had an accident. It frightened the living daylights out of me.
• The incident scared the wits out of me.
to frighten someone very badly. (The living can be left out.)
• We nearly had an accident. It frightened the living daylights out of me.
• The incident scared the wits out of me.
- scare out of one's wits: [American slang]v. ...
- scare the wits out of so: [American slang]Go ...
- frighten the wits out of sb: [American idiom]to ...
