Terror Phrases

Phrases

• Alarm bells began to ring
• Boston Terror (Nickname of boxer Sam Langford)
• Cold sweat
• 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
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• Frock horror
• Gut wrenching panic

• Hit the panic button
• Look a fright
• My blood ran cold
• Night terrors
• 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
• Shlock horror
• Shock horror
• Sound the alarm
• 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
• Without fear or favour