scares the life out of you

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Definition of scares the life out of you words

phrase scares the life out of you If you want to emphasize that something scares you a lot, you can say that it scares the hell out of you or scares the life out of you. 0

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 94% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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