"scare the pants off" meaning in English

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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "He liked the water rides, but the big roller-coaster scared the pants off him."
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        "To scare or startle someone thoroughly."
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        "(slang, idiomatic) To scare or startle someone thoroughly."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "scare someone's pants off"
        }
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        "third-person"
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    {
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        "participle",
        "present"
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        "past"
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        "To scare or startle someone thoroughly."
      ],
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        "(slang, idiomatic) To scare or startle someone thoroughly."
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