Scare Phrases

Phrases

• Acoustic shock
• Alarm bells began to ring
• Caught off base (A baseball expression meaning unawares or by surprise)
• Close call
• Culture shock
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• 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
• Give someone the willys
• Great scot (exclamation of surprise)
• Green Scare
• Gut wrenching panic
• Hair raising
• Hit the panic button
• In for a shock
• In shock
• Inspire me Surprise me AMD me (AMD advertising slogan)
• It gives me the creeps
• Look a fright
• Makes your hair stands on end
• 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
• Running scared
• Scare quotes
• Scare the living daylights out of
• Scared out of your wits
• Scared shitless
• Scared silly
• Scared stiff
• Scared to death
• Scaredy cat
• Shell shock
• Shock and awe
• Shock horror
• Shock jock
• Short sharp shock
• Sound the alarm
• Spit take (spitting out a drink in response to a joke or surprise)
• Sticker shock
• Surprise package
• Surprise surprise
• Take fright
• 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