shitting planks en · VERB
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(Ireland, slang, vulgar) Extremely frightened.
He gave a little wave and then turned back to the computer, sweating. He was shitting planks now. He had to do this thing properly.
2006, Stephen J. Martin, Rock and a Hard Place, 1st edition, Cork: Mercier Press, →ISBN, page 368: