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frighten someone out of their wits
vs
scare the living daylights out of
frighten someone out of their wits
scare the living daylights out of
verb
To scare something or someone to a large degree.
How often have the words
frighten someone out of their wits
and
scare the living daylights out of
occurred in a corpus of books?
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Google Ngram Viewer
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