OUR SEVEN SENSES BEING SCARED OUT OF OUR WITS By Anne Brocklesby upnon“»-~u-unwu.~ OUR SEVEN SENSES BEING SCARED OUT OF OUR.
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- scare (one) out of (one's) wits
Humor consists principally in the recognition and expression of incongruities or peculiarities present in a situation or character. It is frequently used to illustrate some fundamental absurdity in human nature or conduct, and is generally thought of as more kindly than wit: Wit is a purely intellectual manifestation of cleverness and quickness of apprehension in discovering analogies between things really unlike, and expressing them in brief, diverting, and often sharp observations or remarks.
scare (one) out of (one's) wits
The journey was coming to an end. The end of her speech had to be cut short because of time. The happiness of the people is the end of government. What is to be the end of all this bickering? He met a horrible end.
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Another war would be the end of civilization. He does his end of the job very well.
His stupidity is the end. We ended the discussion on a note of optimism.
scare (one) out of (one's) wits
This was the battle that ended the war. This passage ends the novel. A bullet through the heart ended him. You just committed the blunder to end all blunders. The road ends at Rome. Extravagance ends in want. He spent two years wandering about the country at loose ends. I'm at my wit's end with this problem.
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Also at one's wits' end. The cartons were turned end for end. He backed the truck until it was end on with the loading platform.
The pipes were placed end to end on the ground. She went off the deep end when she lost her job. In the end they shook hands and made up. The work is demanding, but he's holding his end up. Let's make an end of this foolishness and get down to work. Despite her meager income, she tried to make ends meet.
Also make both ends meet. They were pleased no end by the warm reception.
They talked for hours on end. Scare us out of our wits - Idioms by The Free Dictionary https: Hyperbolically alludes to frightening someone so severely as to cause them to lose their mind.
Don't sneak up on me like that, you scared me out of my wits! That car accident seems to have scared Janet out of her wits—she's still shaken by it. Also, frighten out of one's wits ; scare stiff or silly or to death or the living daylights out of or the pants off. Terrify, make one panic, as in When the lights went out, she was scared out of her wits , or I was scared stiff that I would fail the driver's test.
The first of these hyperbolic terms, scare out of one's wits , is the oldest and, like silly , suggests one is frightened enough to lose one's mind. The verb scare dates from about , and out of one's wits was first recorded in William Tyndale's translation of the Bible in I Corinthians The variant using daylights , which sometimes occurs without living , dates from the s. Daylights at one time referred to the eyes but here means "vital organs.
However, to death used as an intensifier dates from the s.