Matching Pairs Halloween idiomsOnline version Halloween idioms by L Z 1 a night owl 2 scared stiff 3 Devil’s advocate 4 scaredy cat 5 to come back to haunt [someone] 6 graveyard shift 7 digging one’s own grave. 8 to make [someone]’s blood boil 9 drop dead gorgeous 10 blind as a bat 11 witching hour 12 to smell a rat 13 ghost town 14 a skeleton in one’s closet 15 over my dead body used to say you’ll do whatever it takes to prevent something from happening to suspect a trick or deception. midnight; the time that witches are believed to be most powerful a deserted town with few or no inhabitants having terrible eyesight to do something that causes you harm. a decision that eventually causes problems to the person who made the decision someone who is usually awake and active at night to make someone very angry keeping a shameful secret that could ruin a person’s reputation a shift that runs throughout the night, usually from midnight to 8 am absolutely terrified a person who presents the opposite side to stir up further discussion someone who is easily scared extremely beautiful or attractive