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knock the living daylights out of



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, knock the shit or stuffing or tar out of . See beat the living daylights out of .
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Good writing will knock the living daylights out of you.

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The convicts cheer when a Chapman woman takes control--when one announces to a boozing boyfriend, "I'm gonna take off my kid gloves/ Put on some boxing gloves/ And knock the living daylights out of you."

A chief item was that after laymen have learned to regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing but electricity, the physicists adduce the neutron which has no charge and therefore cannot exist�although a stream of neutrons will knock the living daylights out of a block of paraffin.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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