put the frighteners on

put the frighteners on somebody

(British old-fashioned, informal)

to threaten someone He said he wouldn't pay up so I sent my brothers round to put the frighteners on him.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ferenc	FE-rents	Hungarian
Murna	MUR-na	Irish
Eloi	-	French, Catalan
Johanne	zho-AN (French), yo-HAHN-ne (Danish)	French, Danish, Norwegian, Medieval French
LÜTfİ	-	Turkish
Lauren	LAWR-ən	English