the living daylights out of en · ADV
Meanings
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(informal, not-comparable) Synonym of the daylights out of.
They beat the living daylights out of us.
He won the English championship from the six-foot-three-inch, seventeen-stone Sam Hurst, the Staleybridge Infant, knocking the living daylights out of this champion
1954, Denzil Batchelor, Big Fight: The Story of World Championship Boxing, →OCLC, page 65:...where new and better depreciation regulations and a 7% business investment credit knocked the living daylights out of normal and historical accounting procedures...
1963, “10 second summary”, in Business Management, volume 25, page 38:Boy, the fellows said he just knocked the living daylights out of him, bounced him six feet across the ground.
1939, Ruth McKenney, Industrial Valley, →ISBN, page 255:
Synonyms
the daylights out of · the stuffing out of · the daylight out of · the crap out of · the shit out of · the pants off of · the pantaloons off · the bejeebers out of · the life out of · the pants off · the heck out of · the fuckola out of · the fuck out of · the living daylights out of · seven hells out of · the bejesus out of · the snot out of · the flying fuck out of · the living shit out of · the poop out of · the daylights out of · the dickens out of · the piss out of · the socks off · the living crap out of · seven bells out of · the stuffings out of · the tar out of · the hell out of · the devil out of