Strike fear into (one's) heart informal verb phrase
To scare, frighten, or horrify someone.
He likes sneaking up on his sister to strike fear into her heart.
An unearthly cry rang out, which struck fear into her heart yesterday.
The father's anger struck fear into his chidlren's heart. They daren't gaze up at him.
I'm not stupid or easily scared.
Make someone extremely frightened
To frighten or terrify someone abruptly or severely
To scare someone.
To frighten or worry someone by doing something.
The verb "strike" should be conjugated according to its tense.
To overcome some disadvantage or get out of a bad situation when you have already lost a lot of time for it
We love Tim but we all think that it's impossible he can make up leeway and win first place in the race.