something that you say which means every time you make progress, something bad happens which causes you to be in a worse situation than you were to begin with.

Every solution we come up with seems to create more problems than it solves, so it's one step forward, two steps back.

• scared shitless
• scared stiff
• scared to death
• scaredy-cat
• scare off
• scare off someone
• scare off something
• scare out of their wits
• scare out of wits
• scare someone away from doing something
• scare someone away from something
• scare someone out of their wits
• scare someone out of wits
• scare someone to death
• scare something away from doing something
• scare something away from something
• scare the daylights out of
• scare the daylights out of someone
• scare the hell out of
• scare the hell out of someone
• scare the hell out of you
• scare the life out of
• scare the life out of someone
• scare the living daylights out of
• scare the living daylights out of someone