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Phrase(s): frighten someone or an animal into doing something
to threaten someone or an animal into doing something. • You can’t frighten me into leaving! • Let’s try to frighten the coyotes into running away., Phrase(s): frighten someone or an animal into something 1. [and] frighten someone or an animal in
to scare someone or an animal into entering something or some place. • The trouble in the neighborhood frightened most of the residents into their houses. • The mouse was out of its hole, but we came in and frightened the little mouse back in. 2. to scare someone or an animal into a particular state. • They frightened me into a quivering mass. • The mouse was frightened into a state of confusion.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs