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Hossien Jazayeri Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

be scared out of someone's wits

I was reading a book and I saw this:
"We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared out of your wits"
Now what does "be scared out of..." mean?
Thank you and please bring more examples.
  

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wits means sense of perception - to be scared out of your wits means to be so frightened that your sense is adversely affected.

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  • wits means sense of perception - to be scared out of your wits means to be so frightened that your sense is adversely affected.
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wits means sense of perception - to be scared out of your wits means to be so frightened that your sense is adversely affected.
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Scared out of your wits is a fixed expression - I can't think of any other examples but this is a similar one:

You scared the living daylights out of me

Which means you scared me so much it nearly killed me.
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