Dismay Phrases

Phrases

• Acoustic shock
• Alarm bells began to ring
• Boston Terror (Nickname of boxer Sam Langford)
• Culture shock
• Eyebrow raising (something that creates shock or surprise)
• False alarm
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson book)
• Fear Is The Key (Barry Newman movie)
• Fear is the mind-killer
• Fear the worst

• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• Future shock
• In for a shock
• In shock
• No fear
• Paralysed with fear
• Primal Fear (film starring Richard Gere)
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Put the fear of God into someone
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Radio alarm

• Shell shock
• Shock and awe
• Shock horror
• Shock jock
• Short sharp shock
• Sound the alarm
• Sticker shock
• The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
• The shock of the new
• Without fear or favour