Meaning of SCARE THE PANTS OFF - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English when you scare the pants off
someone it means that you do something that
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scares them a lot or you do something that
frightens them a lot.
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And what you should know is that when you
scare the pants off someone it..., their pants
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don't actually come off.
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It's just a way of saying that you have scared
them a lot or frightened them a lot.
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Some of you might remember from another video
I told a story about how when I was a kid
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I would hide behind a tree and when my sister
walked by I would jump out and yell, "Booh!,
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and that would scare the pants off her.
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You can also have things or situations scare
the pants off of you.
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If you look up there, this is a feed storage
silo, and it is extremely high.
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I don't climb up there ever because heights
scare the pants off of me.
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I do not like being high in the air.
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