shit a brick
also shit bricks mainly US offensiveto become very frightened:
We were all shitting bricks as the truck missed the car by inches.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Afraid
- afraid
- be like a deer/rabbit caught in the headlights idiom
- bottle
- bottle out
- cower
- fear for sb/sth
- fearfully
- horror-struck
- in terror of your life idiom
- intimidated
- panic
- panic-stricken
- panicky
- pants
- quake
- terrified
- terror
- terror-stricken
- unconfident
- worst
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