scare the daylights out of
吓死人了,吓死人不偿命,吓死人的,吓死人不偿命的
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Definitions
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- : the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- : public knowledge or awareness; openness: The newspaper article brought the scandal out into the daylight.
- : the period of day; daytime.
- : daybreak; dawn.
- : a clear space or gap, especially between two people or things that should be close together, as between the knees of a horseback rider and a saddle.
- : disagreement or mental distance between two people: There's very little daylight between the two senators' stances on the issue.
- : daylights, Informal. mental soundness, consciousness, or wits: The noise scared the daylights out of us. I'd like to beat/knock the daylights out of him!
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- : Photography. of, relating to, or being film made for exposure by the natural light of day.
Phrases
- daylight robbery
- beat the living daylights out of
- begin to see daylight
- in broad daylight
- let daylight through
- scare out of one's wits (the living daylights out of)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
As a result, little daylight existed between fame as a young, attractive woman with any hint of a sex life and what we now know as public shaming.
In daylight, Brookesia chameleons scour the forest floor, snatching up mites and other small invertebrates, Glaw’s team suspects.
If daylight permits, you can make forays to try to find a vantage, but mark a trail for your return.
How to use a happy lampLight therapy for SAD is most effective when you start using the lamp in the early fall and continue on until spring, when enough ambient daylight is restored and symptoms subside.
It’s got three light settings—warm light, daylight, and cool light—with 10 brightness levels in each setting.
Not 90 seconds later, Brown lay shot to death in broad daylight in the middle of a Missouri street.
“It was a magical feeling, leaving daylight to sneak into a theater,” he says wistfully.
Two gunmen pulled off a daylight heist in the Diamond District and evaded every single cop.
There are rock-survivor-y types in black, with sunglasses, whose demeanor speaks of lost nights and rare contact with daylight.
Leonard was running, but not getting any closer to daylight.
When I had finished, the other guests had all gone out, but daylight was coming in, and I began to feel more at home.
We were about nine hours of fair daylight traversing 160 miles of level or descending grade, with a light passenger train.
They're up every mornin' uv thar lives long afore daylight, a feedin' their stock, an' gittin' ready fur the day's work.
It was broad daylight still, but gloomy there: the window had the pleasure of reposing under the leads, and was gloomy at noon.