scare off

He has complained about military recruitment ads that feature diverse service members, arguing that the threat of being exposed to different kinds of people would scare off "guys in Kentucky and Colorado and Ohio."

At the time, USC coach Lincoln Riley, who said he would seek a quarterback in the transfer portal, joked that Moss’ performance “may have scared off anybody that would want to come here anyway.”

Republican incumbents have been tying their Democratic challengers to Newsom in an effort to scare off moderate voters and stoke their base.

Scientists believe that algae use bioluminescence as a defense mechanism — to scare off hungry sea creatures or call attention to their location, which draws the predators’ predators.

Earlier in my career, I probably would've been a little scared off by that, of starting the character where we do, where he stepped out from his family.