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What does scared stiff mean?

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Adjective
  1. In the fear-induced state (literal or figurative) where an person seems incapable of movement.
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Halton had a bug eyed stare proving him to be scared stiff and he was decked with a big right to the temple.
He sent an ambulance to me, and while I waited for it, I sat on the curb, scared stiff, clutching a matted, long-haired tabby cat.
Everything I had thought to be possible was true, and I didn't know whether to feel relieved or scared stiff.
But the upper class is scared stiff of his rise, and plots to foil his attempts through fraud.
A brave businesswoman who is scared stiff of sharks is set to take the charity plunge into a tank full of the fearsome fish.
They are scared stiff of what other people think, who in turn are scared stiff of what they think.

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