frighteners in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for frighteners in the English»Spanish Dictionary

frightener [Am ˈfraɪtnər, Brit ˈfrʌɪt(ə)nə] N

to put the frighteners on sb Brit inf

meterle el miedo en el cuerpo a alguien

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

How dare they try to put the frighteners on reporters?

www.dailymail.co.uk

It certainly put the frighteners on the sector - and investors.

www.independent.ie

Hold the documents back for now, depending on how he interprets them it could put the frighteners on mccallister.

www.irishnews.com

He may have been a dreamy, sensitive man, but he couldn't resist putting on the frighteners.

news.bbc.co.uk

But if the intended effect of the tax advice about software development activity is to put the frighteners on small companies -- many of them startups -- then it has worked.

www.innovationaus.com

That is what we feel about these giant spiders, that they need to outfrighten the frighteners.

www.independent.co.uk

However, it's not the recently dug-up and reburied lost royal who put the frighteners on punters -- but the landlady.

www.leicestermercury.co.uk