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