scare someone out of their wits

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scare someone out of their wits

1. (transitive, informal) To frighten someone to such an extent that they behave irrationally.

   He scared me out of my wits, sneaking up behind me in the dark like that.

   Synonym: frighten someone out of their wits

• scare the pants off of
• have one's wits about one

• “scare someone out of their wits” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
• “frighten scare sb out of their wits” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.