Actual translation: O.K., O.K., we're scared stiff.
They were great dog lovers and were scared stiff the dogs would run out and disappear.
And Mr. Kerry told reporters that Republicans were "scared stiff about" his candidacy.
The Football Association were scared stiff of television, fearing that it would steal the crowds away from the terraces, but Sir Dave tells us: "BBC2 managed to persuade the FA to allow them to do it on the grounds that no one watched BBC2, which was more or less true".
House Democrats were scared stiff that the GOP would erase their majority.
"Our artists were scared stiff at the beginning of this project," Rooke says.
Or more accurately, they were scared stiff that they'd be hammered by their GOP opponents in their reelection bid for voting to confirm.
There can be no definition without doubt, unless it be an intuitive definition, in which case we must return to doubt in order to verify the intuition... Catholics are scared stiff of the Holy Ghost, and that's the truth, though the church teaches far otherwise..
