throw a scare into (someone)

To unsettle, startle, or shock someone; to instill someone with fear or disquietude. Though heavily favored to lose the election, the Republican candidate's late surge in the polls is sure to have thrown a scare into the incumbent president's camp.

See also: scare, throw

See also:

be left in charge (of someone or something)
accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
accompany on a journey
be put in charge (of someone or something)
a stranger to (someone or something)
be out of (one's) league
be out of somebody's league
be in bad with (someone)
(one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time
bargain for (someone or something) with (someone)

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