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scared green en · ADJ
Meanings
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(dated, idiomatic) Extremely scared; terrified.
"It's damn decent. I'm sorry I was so suspicious. I was scared green when I first saw you."
1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, page 385:By this time I realized what the real difficulty was: the company was scared green that we were going to blame the accident on their instrument.
1988, Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →OCLC, page 165:
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Synonyms
scared red · scared pink · scared white