Idiom
scare the living daylights out of
Meaning
To scare something or someone to a large degree.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That loud noise scared the living daylights out of me.”
“The sudden crash in the kitchen scared the living daylights out of the cat.”
“The unexpected appearance of the stranger in the dark hallway scared the living daylights out of everyone in the house.”
Examples
simple
“That loud noise scared the living daylights out of me.”
contextual
“The sudden crash in the kitchen scared the living daylights out of the cat.”
complex
“The unexpected appearance of the stranger in the dark hallway scared the living daylights out of everyone in the house.”
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