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make someone jump (out of their skin)
vs
scare someone out of their wits
make someone jump (out of their skin)
scare someone out of their wits
verb
To frighten someone to such an extent that they behave irrationally.
How often have the words
make someone jump (out of their skin)
and
scare someone out of their wits
occurred in a corpus of books?
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