The phrase "a great fright" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant feeling of fear or shock experienced by someone.
Example: "When the lights went out suddenly, it gave me a great fright, and I jumped out of my seat."
Alternatives: "a big scare" or "a huge shock".
One spoke of the "overwhelming terror" he had experienced; another spoke of the "great fright" he and his wife and child had felt in their third-floor apartment.
Yet working with actors who make you care and a neo-Frankenstein creation that touchingly does, too, he has become one of the genre's new great fright hopes.
It is possible that it could make a person angry, or cause them to be "very jolly or sad, jump about, dance, sing or give way to great fright".
At the Florida park, he is currently only the star of Beetlejuice's Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue, but also starred in the now defunct "Extreme Ghostbusters: The Great Fright Way!".
It gave me a big fright".
This year, the whole family is dressing up like rock stars, and I'm looking forward to a great night of fright here in our small West Virginia town.
He joined the drama group, acted, and had a great time of it until one night he suffered crippling stage fright playing the king in Love's Labour's Lost.
Lucille Ball was a showgirl before becoming a comedian, but we don't think of her as a great beauty; Phyllis Diller was actually a very attractive woman who donned the fright wigs and feathers to appear less threatening.
Don't take fright; it's not a leather ghetto - think unrivalled wildlife (lemurs stupid, you're not here for the clubbing), fabulous flora and a great beach.
He had a great attitude for language and character and performance.' But suddenly, inexplicably, playing the king in a student production of Love's Labour's Lost, he suffered a debilitating attack of stage fright.
