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scare the bejeebers out of
vs
terrify
scare the bejeebers out of
verb
To terrify thoroughly.
terrify
verb
To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
To menace or intimidate.
How often have the words
scare the bejeebers out of
and
terrify
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)