[beat/bore/scare etc.] the pants off (someone)

informal

if someone or something beats, bores, scares etc. the pants off someone, they beat, bore, or scare them completely.

I hate sunbathing. It bores the pants off me.

Horror films scare the pants off me.

• close to home
• close to someone's heart
• close to the bone
• close to your heart
• close up shop
• Close your eyes and think of England.
• close your eyes to
• close your eyes to something
• closing the stable door after the horse has bolted
• cloth ears
• cloud on the horizon
• clue in
• clue someone in
• clutch at straws
• C-note
• coast is clear
• coast to coast
• coast-to-coast
• cock-and-bull story
• cock a snook
• cock of the walk
• coffee table book
• cog in the machine
• cog in the wheel
• coin a phrase