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make someone's hair stand on end
vs
scare someone out of their wits
make someone's hair stand on end
verb
To frighten or scare someone.
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's hair stand on end
and
scare someone out of their wits
occurred in a corpus of books?
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