frighten to death

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to frighten sb very much

   Christ.

In the movies · 4

• Christ.The Purge2013
• That people who commercialize on fear, you know, they scare you to death so they can sell you something you don't need.You Can't Take It with You1938
• Oh, you know he must've done somethin'. Scares me to death.The Last Picture Show1971
• You frighten my cattle to death and they won't be milked.Anne of Green Gables1985

Learn it in full scenes

• You Can't Take It with You1938
  • Kirby Plans the Munitions Monopoly
  • Poppins Becomes a Lily of the Field
  • A Day in the Sycamore House

From the same entry

• at death's door
• be the death of
• do to death
• look like death warmed up
• put to death
• to death
• to the death
• catch your death
• cheat death
• dice with death
• die a death
• a fate worse than death

More idioms

• have a bone to pick with
• have a mind of your own
• of your own free will
• pay good money for
• take the edge off
• for your information
• you're on
• out of hand
• straight away
• ahead of your time
• be staring in the face
• be written all over face