Sentence examples for scared stiff to from inspiring English sources

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But the victim's father is scared stiff to speak out – and the deeper Mads digs, the more he uncovers a story of mass criminal neglect, shady lawyers and financial deceit.

Any owner of a horse who may one day be a commercial stallion is scared stiff to run him in the Leger for fear that he might actually win the thing, proving his bottomless reserves of, ugh, stamina.

A day after their arrival on the West Coast and after careful coaching from Daphne Greene, Warren, Sunny and another son, John Adler, went to visit David at Camp K. "I was totally scared stiff to walk into the place," said John. "They say they take the siblings and eat you up". A member of the cult followed them down the foggy road as they drove away.

But at Old Trafford, apart from a couple of occasions in the second half, Santos was scared stiff to come forward down the left and Sagna was also cautious on the other side of the field because he had Ashley Young to deal with.

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The Palace manager, Dougie Freedman, had fanned the flames by claiming Cardiff would be "scared stiff" after failures to get over the final hurdle in recent play-off and cup finals.

I remember taking it to the end-of-term party and I was scared stiff because I wanted to share it with people but I didn't want it to be snapped in half.

It is not a very good idea to take a girl who is scared stiff of the heights to a skiing resort.

A batsman can respond in one of several ways: either he will play the over carefully, scared stiff of getting out to a part-timer; or he will try to cash in.

Freedman's comments – he previously suggested Cardiff would be "scared stiff" of failure – appear to have angered the Cardiff camp.

And for those scared stiff by the translation from RTS to FPS, EA has sought to provide some assurance.

But then, even if Rupert had fancied his electoral chances, it wasn't necessary to  go to such lengths: all he needed was  a succession of party leaders scared stiff of his newspapers, and willing to bend the knee.

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