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scare out of one's wits
vs
scare the bejeebers out of
scare out of one's wits
scare the bejeebers out of
verb
To terrify thoroughly.
How often have the words
scare out of one's wits
and
scare the bejeebers out of
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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