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be scared shitless

rude slang To be completely terrified. I was scared shitless when I woke up to the sounds of an intruder in my house. I'm scared shitless that the tests are going to come back positive. Of course I was scared shitless! There was a bear in our backyard!
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scared shitless

rude slang Completely terrified. I was scared shitless when I woke up to the sounds of an intruder in my house.
See also: scare, shitless
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scared shitless

INFORMAL, VERY RUDE
If someone is scared shitless, they are extremely scared. When I first met him, I was scared shitless.
See also: scare, shitless
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012

be scared (or bored) shitless

be extremely frightened (or bored).
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scared shitless

mod. very frightened. (Potentially offensive. Use caution with shit.) He wasn’t just frightened. He was scared shitless!
See also: scare, shitless
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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A Chinese lad on the west coast wrote to gloat that, since reading about my book, he'd been sticking it to the missus with rather more frequency and gusto than usual just to add one more Chinese baby to the yellow peril and thereby "scare me shitless." I e-mailed back: Good for you.
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