put the frighteners on

put the frighteners on somebody

(British old-fashioned, informal)

to threaten someone He said he wouldn't pay up so I sent my brothers round to put the frighteners on him.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Renia	-	Polish
Terttu	TERT-too	Finnish
Wulan	WOO-lahn	Indonesian, Javanese
Leila	LAY-lə (English), LEE-lə (English), LIE-lə (English)	Arabic, Persian, English, Georgian
Epiktetos	-	Ancient Greek
Tondra	TON-drah	Esperanto