the tar out of en · ADV
Meanings
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(informal, not-comparable) Used as an intensifier between a verb and its object: thoroughly, with vigour, to an intense degree.
It had been common gossip along the wharves at home that young Edwards had grown able to lick the tar out of Yerner.
1930, Captain Dingle, “Treasure!” (chapter 9), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 76:
Synonyms
the piss out of · seven hells out of · the living crap out of · seven bells out of · the stuffing out of · the fuckola out of · the hell out of · the dickens out of · the pantaloons off · the heck out of · the shit out of · the living shit out of · the socks off · the bejeebers out of · the devil out of · the flying fuck out of · the snot out of · the life out of · the poop out of · the living daylights out of · the stuffing out of · the fuck out of · the bejesus out of · the stuffings out of · the crap out of · the daylight out of · the daylights out of · the pants off of · the tar out of · the pants off