The phrase "got a fright" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe the experience of being startled or scared by something unexpected.
Example: "When the cat jumped out from behind the curtain, I really got a fright."
Alternatives: "was startled" or "got scared."
After ignoring the problem determinedly, lawmakers in Annapolis got a fright when the stock market's swoon during the recession further depleted the fund.
They got a fright, but no one was hurt.' He and his accomplice got away with £15,000, but were caught and sentenced to four years in gaol.
Alan C. Greenberg, the chairman of Bear Stearns, said he got a fright Thursday afternoon just minutes after agreeing to terms of the deal.
I got a fright in the haunted Old Angel Inne ("Upper Canada's Oldest Operating Inn") when I asked the barman who the ghost was supposed to be.
After coming home, when I entered the latitude and longitude into Google Maps, I got a fright seeing how deeply lost we were; zooming out from that tiny point and seeing nothing but the cruel blue actually felt a bit like falling.
But the more they sell, the harder it is to convince customers that they are buying something "exclusive": ie, something that hardly anyone else has.Burberry, a British firm that makes pricey raincoats, got a fright a few years ago when its distinctive brown checks became associated with "chavs"—a white working-class group at whom snobs poke cruel fun.
(Try it: press "Settings", "Privacy", "Location services", "System services" then "Frequent locations" on your iPhone – and prepare to get a fright).
"Accidents often happen when cyclists look behind them or get a fright when they are passed at high speed," said Maurice Kwakkernaat, one of TNO's research scientists involved in the project.
The critic James Agee wrote: "It seems to me harder to get a fright than a laugh, and I experienced 35 first-class jolts, not to mention a well-calculated texture of minor frissons".
I am afraid that he will get a fright unless he realises that life in Paris is expensive if he does not manage to go there with a good monthly allowance..
The critic James Agee wrote: "It seems to me harder to get a fright than a laugh, and I experienced 35 first-class jolts, not to mention a well-calculated texture of minor frissons". The Uninvited was that rare species, a serious Hollywood ghost movie, rather than the usual comic thriller.
