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scared shitless

a. (context idiomatic vulgar slang English) Very frightened, terrified.

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Usage examples of "scared shitless".

Shaftoe looks out to the right and sees mountains covered with snow and gets scared shitless for a moment thinking maybe they've strayed into the Alps.

And I just know they're scared shitless that someone like you is going to find out.

We were all scared shitless and at the same time still thrilled to be doing what we were doing.

Because, face it, he was scared shitless that shed given up on him and struck out on her own.

It also gave his hands something to do when he was nervous or scared shitless.

All of these Raft dudes, these tough scary homeboys of the sea, are scared shitless of this guy.

I was scared shitless that he'd kill me anyway, so when I heard that the Boulevard-Citizens heisters took some of Benny's money along with the bank's, I shook down stoolies until I got Bobby De Witt on a platter.

Everybody was shivering, and I remember sitting perfectly still because it was warmer that way, and Joey Mantaneo was pushed against me like four o'clock on the D-train going to Brooklyn, and even in the cold he smelled like cordite and rot and piss (and that cordite smell should have alerted me that something bad was crawling toward me), and he had his war name SCARED SHITLESS painted across his flack jacket and stenciled on his helmet like he was military police, and I knew the story about how he got his name -- but he was the only one in Bravo who'd never been wounded or sick, not even an infection when he cut his finger.