scare the pants off

“The last 23 years are the best lessons we have right now, and they should scare the pants off of people,” said Udall, who has been a co-author of research showing how warming is sapping the river’s flows.

Far from undercutting the genre and simply satirizing conventions, it exemplifies the genre and employs those conventions widely and masterfully, reminding the audience that even if you know the rules of a teenage slasher flick, a well-made teenage slasher flick still has the capacity to scare the pants off you.

But the lo-fi original can still scare the pants off you.

“It would scare the pants off the Mayor and leading businessmen.”

“The overall mandate for us was that the score really needed to scare the pants off of people,” Abels said.