scare stiff

scare someone stiff

Fig. to frighten someone severely. (Stiff = dead.) That loud noise scared me stiff. The robber jumped out and scared us stiff.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Haidee	HAY-dee (English)	Literature
Asenneth	-	Biblical Greek
Tacito	tah-CHEE-to (Italian), tah-THEE-to (Spanish), tah-SEE-to (Latin American Spanish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Tovah	-	Hebrew
Vardan	-	Armenian
Gautama	GAW-ta-ma	Sanskrit