Scared Phrases

Phrases

• Afraid of your own shadow
• Afraid so
• Alarmed? You should be (Moss Security advertising slogan)
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• As nervous as a whore in church
• Be afraid, be very afraid
• Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel album and song)
• Camera shy
• Don't get vexed, ask Teletext (Teletext advertising slogan)
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (David Reuben book)
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
• Fight shy
• Frightened of your own shadow
• I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens (Woody Allen quotation)
• It gives me the creeps
• Nervous Nellie
• Nervous breakdown
• Nervous titter
• Nervous wreck
• Never Nervous Pervis (Nickname of Pervis Ellison)
• Once bitten, twice shy
• Pour oil on troubled waters
• Running scared
• Scared out of your wits
• Scared shitless
• Scared silly
• Scared stiff
• Scared to death
• Shrinking violet
• Tense nervous headache
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Lily Tomlin / Dolly Parton / Jane Fonda movie)
• The balance of his mind was disturbed
• The worried well
• Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (play by Edward Albee)
• Worried sick
• Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?