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get the (screaming) heebie-jeebies
vs
lose one's nerve
get the (screaming) heebie-jeebies
lose one's nerve
verb
To stop doing or fail to do something because one lacks courage.
How often have the words
get the (screaming) heebie-jeebies
and
lose one's nerve
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)