raide comme un piquet, très rigide

be scared stiff Idiome

a stiff upper lip

(See keep a stiff upper lip)

keep a stiff upper lip

be brave, face trouble bravely The prisoners tried hard to keep a stiff upper lip in spite of the hardships of the prison.

scared stiff

very frightened, frightened to death, petrified """Are you afraid of heights?"" ""Yes. I'm scared stiff of anything higher than a bicycle seat."""

stiff

person, man You lucky stiff! You won a TV!

stiff upper lip

(See keep a stiff upper lip)

bindle stiff

one who steals a hobo's bindle

scare sb stiff

Idiom(s): scare sb stiff

Theme: FRIGHT - SEVERE

to scare someone severely; to frighten someone to death. (Stiff means "dead.")
• That loud noise scared me stiff
• The robber jumped out and scared us stiff.

bored stiff

Idiom(s): bored stiff AND bored to death

Theme: BOREDOM

very bored.
• We were all bored stiff.
• I've never been so bored to death in my life.

bore sb stiff

Idiom(s): bore someone stiff AND bore someone to death

Theme: BOREDOM

to bore someone very much. (Stiff is an old slang word meaning "dead.")
• The play bored me stiff.
• The lecture bored everyone to death.

Stiff as a poker

Something or someone that is stiff as a poker is inflexible. ('Stiff as a board' is also used.)

be afraid stiff

To be absolutely terrified; to be so afraid that one cannot move. I was afraid annealed back I heard addition in our kitchen in the average of the night. Janet has been afraid annealed afterwards her appointment with that abundance lion.Learn more: scare, stiff

scared silly/stiff/to death, to be

To be acutely frightened; panicstricken. The ancient adaptation of such abstract expressions seems to accept been to be afraid or abashed out of one’s wits, which appeared in book in 1697: “Distracted and frighted out of his wits” (Bishop Simon Patrick, Commentary). After it was abashed or afraid out of one’s seven senses (used by Jonathan Swift and Sir Walter Scott), still after replaced by silly, with the aforementioned meaning. Stiff alludes to aeroembolism by fright, death to dying of terror. A mid-twentieth-century agnate is to alarm the pants off addition (Ogden Nash, and others). Also see shake in one's shoes.Learn more: scare, silly, stiff, to

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