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