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frighten
vs
scare the bejeebers out of
frighten
verb
To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
scare the bejeebers out of
verb
To terrify thoroughly.
How often have the words
frighten
and
scare the bejeebers out of
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)