scare to death



scare you to death

(spoken)
to make you feel extremely frightened scare the hell out of you David suddenly appeared like a ghost in the doorway and scared me to death.
Related vocabulary: scare the pants off you
See also: death, scare

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Nadezhdanah-DYEZH-dah (Russian)Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Ukrainian
Clinton['klintən]
DebiDEB-eeEnglish
Jefferson['dʒefəsn]
Elishai-LIE-shə (English), ee-LIE-shə (English)Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Sakina-Arabic