be frightened out of one 's wits

be frightened out of one 's wits

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ò s à NH ú NF ē I, describes fear. It comes from the third fold of a hundred flowers Pavilion by Wu Mingshi of Yuan Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In Yuan Dynasty, the third fold of Wu Mingshi's hundred flowers Pavilion: "but it's just the ship's late arrival at the bottom of the river, which only drives me away."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: spirited [antonym]: calm

Idiom usage

The girl student stopped to look at him when she met him, which made him even more frightened. The 40th chapter of Li Baojia's a brief history of civilization in Qing Dynasty