be frightened out of your wits

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be very frightened

   Lizzie's been half frightened out of her wits...

In the movies · 2

• Lizzie's been half frightened out of her wits...The Uninvited1944

Learn it in full scenes

• The Uninvited1944
  • Pamela Falls for the Old House
  • The Fitzgeralds Try to Buy Windward
  • The Fitzgeralds Buy a Haunted House

From the same entry

• be at your wits' end
• have your wits about you
• to wit
• live by your wits

More idioms

• be no laughing matter
• be on your last legs
• be the spitting image of
• blow up in face
• come with the territory
• for the foreseeable future
• from head to foot
• give a once over
• go round in circles
• have an eye for
• i could eat a horse
• in the eyes of the law