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scare the pants off you

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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 the hell out of you, scare you to death

See also: pant, scare

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