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