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Quaking Boots One’s Extremely Scared Snakes Water Started

Phrase/Idiom quaking in one’s boots
Definition When someone is extremely scared, it is said that they are quaking in their boots.
Example When she saw the snakes in the water, she started quaking in her boots.

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