scare the pants off (you)

to frighten you very much.

Spiders scare the pants off me.

Usage notes: also used with other verbs to emphasize an extreme reaction: Sunbathing bores the pants off me.

Hugh always beats the pants off me in tennis.

Related vocabulary: scare the hell out of you, scare you to death

• get on someone's case
• get on someone's nerves
• get on someone's tits
• get on someone's wick
• get on the bandwagon
• get on the stick
• get on the wrong side of the law
• get on tits
• get on top of
• get on top of you
• get on wick
• get on your high horse
• get on your nerves
• get on your soapbox
• get out of a hole
• get out of bed on the wrong side
• get out of hand
• get out of mind
• get out of my face
• Get out of my face!
• get out of system
• get out of the way
• get out of your mind
• pack them in
• pack up