bored/scared/worried stiffinformalVERY extremely bored, frightened, or worried 极其腻烦/害怕/担心 As a child, I was scared stiff of going down to the cellar. 小时候,我非常害怕到地下室去。
bored/scared/worried stiff• Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff.• Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff.• And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.• Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.• We looked at each other, scared stiff, but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.• He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.• He was scared stiff, thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
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