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scare the bejeebers out of
vs
scare the pants off
scare the bejeebers out of
verb
To terrify thoroughly.
scare the pants off
verb
To scare or startle someone thoroughly.
How often have the words
scare the bejeebers out of
and
scare the pants off
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)