scared green

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1. datedidiomaticExtremely scared; terrified.

   "It's damn decent. I'm sorry I was so suspicious. I was scared green when I first saw you."

   1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, page 385

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   By this time I realized what the real difficulty was: the company was scared green that we were going to blame the accident on their instrument.

   1988, Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →OCLC, page 165

   Synonyms: scared red, scared pink, scared white