be quaking in boots

be quaking in your boots

to be very frightened or anxious My first teacher had one of those deep, booming voices that had you quaking in your boots.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jory	-	Cornish
Guiying	-	Chinese
Aldis	['ɔ:ldis]
Rajesh	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali
Melany	MEL-ə-nee	English (Modern)
AindrÉAs	AHN-dray-as	Irish