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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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Most of these people are scared stiff of entering the political arena on their own but eager to do so hidden under some obscure umbrella.
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.
They are scared stiff about the fact that satellites could belong to foreign companies.
Normally, the rest of the field are scared stiff of Radcliffe, last night she was the one with the fear factor.
They are scared stiff of what other people think, who in turn are scared stiff of what they think.

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