In the alliterative phrases trot and tremble, tremble and trot. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive in same sense. with subordinate clause: To feel alarmed or uneasy lest (something should happen).

intransitive. To feel sudden astonishment or alarm; to take fright, be shocked at. †to startle into: to be shocked into (a particular state) (obsolete…

A warning of danger, esp. one intended to startle or rouse the previously unwary into action. Frequently in to give (also take, raise) the alarm.

to take alarm: (originally) to accept and act upon a warning of danger; (in later use) to become alarmed or roused to a sense of danger.

A bugbear, a source of dread. to take bog: to boggle, v. 1 2. Cf. boggle, n. 1.

To take a scare (see scare, n.2); to be alarmed by rumours or the like. Frequently in negative, esp. with easily or easy.

Slang phrases: to hit, splitor take the breeze: to depart; to get (have)or put the breeze up: to get or put the wind up (see wind, n.1 10b).

to get the wind up (slang): to get into a state of alarm or ‘funk’. So to put the wind up (a person).

intransitive. To take fright; to become alarmed. North American slang.