Idiom
scare someone to death
Meaning
To frighten someone very much.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The loud noise scared me to death.”
“He jumped out from behind the door and scared me to death.”
“The sudden, thunderous crash in the middle of the night scared the sleeping family to death, leaving them trembling in the dark.”
Examples
simple
“The loud noise scared me to death.”
contextual
“He jumped out from behind the door and scared me to death.”
complex
“The sudden, thunderous crash in the middle of the night scared the sleeping family to death, leaving them trembling in the dark.”
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