Idiom:

Scare the daylights out of someone ( be frightened )

Hit the book:
Renovation
Filthy
Footage
Accumulation
Grease
Multitude
Cockroach
Anonymity
Pest control

A Perth Chinese restaurant which shocked a renovation crew—and readers of this website—with its filthy state had twice been the subject of health complaints and both failed and passed council inspections in the seven months before it closed.

Photographs and video footage published by WAtoday.com.au on Monday revealed the terrible conditions in the restaurant kitchen, including vast accumulations of grease, a multitude of cockroaches and a stove-top that was literally falling apart.