Phrase thesaurus
Fear Phrases
91 phrases and expressions related to "fear".
Phrases
- A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
- A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
- Alarm bells began to ring
- Armed and dangerous
- Be afraid, be very afraid
- Boston Terror (Nickname of boxer Sam Langford)
- Brown trousers
- Caught like a rabbit in the headlights
- Change into your brown trousers
- Clear and present danger
- Cold sweat
- Danger, Will Robinson (A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space)
- Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close movie)
- Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys song)
- Don't have nightmares (A catchphrase from Nick Ross)
- Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
- Don't worry, be happy
- 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
- Frightened of your own shadow
- Frock horror
- God fearing
- Green Scare
- Gut wrenching panic
- He makes my flesh crawl
- He makes my flesh creep
- He makes my skin crawl
- He makes my skin creep
- Hit the panic button
- Look a fright
- Lost your bottle
- Mad, bad and dangerous to know
- My blood ran cold
- Nigerian Nightmare (Nickname of Christian Okoye)
- No fear
- Not to worry
- Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
- On dangerous ground
- Our entire economy is in danger
- Out of danger
- Panic buying
- Panic room
- Panic selling
- Paralysed with fear
- Pissing in the wind
- Press the panic button
- 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
- Scare quotes
- Scare the living daylights out of
- Separation anxiety
- Shake like a leaf
- Shlock horror
- Shock and awe
- Shock horror
- Sound the alarm
- Stranger danger
- Take fright
- The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
- The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes story)
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
- Throw your arms in horror
- Voice of doom
- Whistling in a graveyard
- Whistling in the dark
- Without fear or favour
- Worry wart
- Yellow belly (slang term for a coward)
- You look as though you've seen the ghost
Related
- 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
- 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
- The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes story)
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
- Without fear or favour