Panic Phrases

Phrases

• Alarm bells began to ring
• Boston Terror (Nickname of boxer Sam Langford)
• Crisis management
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• 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
• Feeding frenzy
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• Green Scare
• Gut wrenching panic
• Hit the panic button
• In a cold sweat
• In a flap
• In a flutter
• Lager frenzy
• Look a fright
• Mass hysteria
• Media frenzy
• No fear
• Panic buying
• Panic room
• Panic selling
• Paralysed with fear
• 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
• Sound the alarm
• Take fright
• The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
• Without fear or favour