Horrors, give the

To terrify. The phrase “the horrors” is English: see 1768, 1780; but “give the horrors” is perhaps American.

1768.  He is coming this way all in the horrors.—Goldsmith, ‘The Good-natured Man.’ (N.E.D.)

1780.  London is in the horrors.… A spirit of bigotry and fanaticism, mixing with the universal discontents of the nation, has broken out into violences of the most dreadful nature.—J. Adams, ‘Familiar Letters’ (1876), p. 382. (N.E.D.)

1794.  The Sans-Culottes have given the horrors to all the aristocrats in the West Indies.—Letter from St. Eustatius in The Gazette of the U.S., Phila., Aug. 4.