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make someone jump (out of their skin)
vs
scare the life out of
make someone jump (out of their skin)
scare the life out of
verb
To scare something or someone to a great degree.
How often have the words
make someone jump (out of their skin)
and
scare the life out of
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)