American Idioms and Expressions

Scare The Daylights Out Of Someone Idiom

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Scare the daylights out of someone
What does Scare the daylights out of someone mean?		 If you scare the daylights out of someone, you terrify them. (This can be made even stronger by saying 'the living daylights'.)

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right on
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What does "cheese (someone) off or cheese off (someone)" mean?		 to annoy or irritate or anger someone I cheesed off my neighbor when I borrowed his ladder without telling him.

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