scare the pants off someone

tv. to frighten someone suddenly. The piano lid fell and scared the pants off my parents.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Rufina	-	Russian, Spanish, Ancient Roman
Ville	VEEL-le (Finnish)	Finnish, Swedish
Iyov	-	Hebrew
Damjan	-	Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Alise (1)	-	Latvian
Berenice	bər-NEES (English), ber-ə-NEE-see (English), be-re-NEE-che (Italian)	English, Italian, Ancient Greek (Latinized)