Meaning

1 senses

  1. (idiomatic, slang)To scare or startle someone thoroughly.

    He liked the water rides, but the big roller-coaster scared the pants off him.

Examples

38 sentences

  1. You probably scared Tom off.

    Можливо, ти сполохнув Тома. — deniko

    deDu hast Tom wahrscheinlich verjagt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. I wonder what scared Tom off.

    ruИнтересно, кого Том спугнул. — odexed

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  3. Tom scared the pants off you, didn't he?

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  4. You scared them off.

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  5. What scared Tom off?

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Forms

scares the pants off, scaring the pants off, scared the pants off, scared the pants off
Base formscare the pants off · to scare the pants off
3rd person singularscares the pants off
Present participlescaring the pants off
Past simplescared the pants off
Past participlescared the pants off

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyscare the pants off
he, she, itscares the pants off

Past simpleLesson

all personsscared the pants off

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave scared the pants off
he, she, ithas scared the pants off

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill scare the pants off

Synonyms

1 synonyms
scare someone's pants off

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scarcityscareB1scarecrowscarfA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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