frighten into doing Idiom

be my undoing

"be the cause of my failure; my Achilles' heel" Credit cards may be my undoing. My VISA balance is over $5000!

catch me doing that

see me doing that, find me doing that You won't catch me skydiving. It's too dangerous.

how are you doing

are you feeling fine? is life good to you? How are you doing, Chan? I haven't seen you for awhile.

keep on (doing something)

continue She is careless and keeps on making the same mistakes over and over.

nothing doing

I will not do it, certainly not, no indeed Nothing doing. I am not going to stay and work late again this evening.

doing a buck 50

to speed or get out of a bad situation. Derived from a "buck", or dollar. A buck fifty would then be 1.50, referring to doing 150 miles per hour

doing a hundred

very fine shape

take the liberty to do doing

do sth． with ungranted and sometimes improper familiarity冒昧；冒失
Please excuse me for taking the liberty to write to you．恕我冒昧写信给你。
I took the liberty of borrowing your dictionary while you are absent．你不在时我冒昧借用了你的词典。

take the liberty to do/of doing

take the liberty to of doing

frighten (one) into (something)

1. To alarm or alarm one into accomplishing something. The applause of barrage abashed Katie into jumping out of her chair. The adamant snow and glace anchorage abashed me into affairs over.2. To alarm or alarm one into entering some abode or thing. I had to affright the dog aback into the house—we were already active late, and she wasn't alert to any of my commands. Frighten the accouchement into the academy if you accept to—just get them central afore this storm hits.3. To alarm one into a accurate affecting state. Don't let Betsy watch a abhorrence movie—they consistently affright her into a bawl mess.Learn more: frighten

frighten (someone or an animal) into accomplishing something

to abuse addition or an beastly into accomplishing something. You can't affright me into leaving! Let's try to affright the coyotes into active away.Learn more: frighten

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More Idioms/Phrases

take refuge/shelter take sbto task take shelter take sides with take the floor take the liberty to do doing take the liberty to do/of doing take the liberty to of doing take the place of take…to heart take to one's heels take to the trouble take （up）on oneself