单词 | scare the pants off |
释义 | pants /pants/plural noun
ORIGIN: pantaloons (see Pantaloon) pantˈies plural noun Brief knickers for a girl or woman pants suit or pantˈsuit noun (esp N American) A woman's suit of trousers and jacket (be caught) with one's pants down (informal) (to be caught) at an embarrassing and unsuitable moment, in a state of extreme unpreparedness (fly) by the seat of one's pants (to get through a difficult or dangerous situation) by a combination of resourcefulness and sheer luck scare, bore, etc the pants off someone (slang) To scare, bore, etc someone to a great degree scare /skār/transitive verb
To become frightened noun
ORIGIN: ME skerre, from ON skirra to avoid, from skiarr shy; vowel history obscure scared adjective Frightened scarˈer noun scarify /skārˈi-fī/ transitive verb (non-standard) To frighten scarˈily adverb scarˈiness noun scarˈy or scareˈy adjective
scareˈcrow noun
scaredˈy-cat noun
scareˈ-head, scareˈ-heading or scareˈ-line noun A newspaper heading designed to raise a scare scareˈmonger noun An alarmist, someone who causes panic by initiating or encouraging rumours of trouble scareˈmongering noun and adjective scare quotes plural noun Quotation marks used to indicate that the enclosed expression is in some way questionable scare tactics plural noun Actions or words solely intended to intimidate scareˈware noun (comput sl) Malicious software designed to deceive users into buying useless or dangerous products run scared To panic scare the (living) daylights out of or scare the pants off (both informal) To frighten considerably scare up
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