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daunt
vs
scare the living daylights out of
daunt
verb
To discourage, intimidate.
To overwhelm.
scare the living daylights out of
verb
To scare something or someone to a large degree.
How often have the words
daunt
and
scare the living daylights out of
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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