"It scared the living daylights out of slave holders in the West," he said.

“这种仪式会将西部的奴隶主作为活祭品，”他说。

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"One wild boar entered a boutique, scaring the daylights out of a saleswoman," local police said in a statement.

“有一头野猪冲进了一家小商店内，直接威胁到了店内一位女售货员的生命安全，”当地警方在一份声明中说。

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That sudden scream in the middle of night scared the daylights out of me.

半夜那突如其来的一声尖叫把我给吓得魂飞魄散。

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But the scriptwriters' attempts to tone down the comedy, made Dalton's Bond in The Living Daylights and A Licence To Kill, a dark, vulnerable, humourless man.

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As Kaspersky found out, it wasn't just scamware, but a trojan: the title would swipe the contacts after asking permission, send them to a remote server behind the scenes and text spam the daylights out of any phone number in that list.

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That scares the daylights out of a lot of people who don't have a lot of confidence in government efficiency and who worry that private companies can't compete with Uncle Sam so employees will be pushed by their employers into the public option whether they want to go there or not.

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