be like a deer/rabbit caught in the headlights
to be so frightened or surprised that you cannot move or think:
Each time they asked him a question he was like a deer caught in the headlights.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Afraid
- afraid
- bottle
- bottle out
- cower
- fear for sb/sth
- fear the worst idiom
- fearfully
- in terror of your life idiom
- intimidated
- panic
- panic-stricken
- panicky
- pants
- petrified
- quake
- terrified
- terror
- terror-stricken
- unconfident
- worst
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