daylights イディオム
knock the living daylights out of someone
living daylights
scare the daylights out of someone
the living daylights
beat the living daylights out of
Idiom(s): beat the living daylights out of sb AND beat the stuffing out of sb beat the tar out of sb whale the tar out of sbTheme: ATTACK
to beat or spank someone, probably a child. (Folksy.)
• If you do that again, I'll beat the living daylights out of you.
• The last time Bobby put the cat in the refrigerator, his mother beat the living daylights out of him.
• If you continue to act that way, I'll beat the tar out of you.
• He wouldn't stop, so I beat the stuffing out of him.
• He threatened to whale the tar out of each of them.
scare the living daylights out of
Idiom(s): frighten the wits out of sb AND frighten the living daylights out of sb; scare the living daylights out of sb; scare the wits out of sbTheme: FRIGHT
to frighten someone very badly. (The living can be left out.)
• We nearly had an accident. It frightened the living daylights out of me.
• The incident scared the wits out of me.
frighten the living daylights out of
Idiom(s): frighten the wits out of sb AND frighten the living daylights out of sb; scare the living daylights out of sb; scare the wits out of sbTheme: FRIGHT
to frighten someone very badly. (The living can be left out.)
• We nearly had an accident. It frightened the living daylights out of me.
• The incident scared the wits out of me.
Beat the daylights out of someone
If someone beats the daylights out of another person, they hit them repeatedly. ('Knock' can also be used and it can be made even stronger by saying 'the living daylights'.)knock the living daylights out of|daylights|knock|
v. phr., slang, informal To render (someone) unconscious (said in exaggeration). The news almost knocked the living daylights out of me.scare out of one's wits|daylights|out of one's wit
v. phr., informal To frighten very much. The owl's hooting scared him out of his wits. The child was scared stiff in the dentist's chair. Pete's ghost story scared the daylights out of the smaller boys.knock the living daylights out of
knock the living daylights out ofAlso, knock the shit or stuffing or tar out of. See beat the living daylights out of.
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