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beat the pants off en · VERB
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(idiomatic, transitive) To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone, either in a physical fight or, figuratively, in a competition.
Jeffrey Vinik, manager of the $56 billion Fidelity Magellan Fund, the world's largest and most closely watched mutual fund, "beat the pants off the managers of other large funds," in the words of one analyst.
1996 June 3, John Greenwald et al., “Magellan's New Direction”, in Time:American workers can outcompete and beat the pants off anybody, anywhere.
1987 September 6, Bernard Weinraub, “Reagan Tells Congress to Shun Protectionism”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Aug 2012:Their counterparts in Canada, Europe and Japan made less than half as much, sometimes while beating the pants off them in the marketplace.
2001 June 24, Janice Castro, “Business”, in Time:
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clobber