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