Question of the Day #952

The 14 Best Haunted Houses In America That’ll Scare You Silly

From the headline of this article at Only In Your State.

  上記の文で、scare ~ sillyの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "scare ~ silly" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎で一番近い訳は、scared sillyです。その意味は、

《be ～》恐怖で気が動転している、おびえまくっている

Scare ~ sillyは、下記の英語の定義によると、

誰かを突然とても怖がらせる。大袈裟にいうと、その誰かが気が狂うほど怖らがせること。

厳密にいうとscare ~ sillyは、ただのscareとほぼ同じ意味ですが、度合いが違います。
 

Answer

According to The Free Dictionary:

To shock or frighten one very suddenly or severely. Hyperbolically alludes to frightening one so severely as to cause them to lose their mind.

 

Examples

• Don't sneak up on me like that, you scared me silly!
• That car accident seems to have scared Janet silly. She's still shaken by it.
• Not gonna lie, we were scared silly when you came out of nowhere.
• Nearly getting hit by that car left me scared silly.
• I felt scared silly going down into the dark cellar alone.

   

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