[pl.]
IDIOMS
beat / knock the (living) daylights out of sb (informal) to hit sb very hard several times and hurt them very much:
Get out or I'll beat the living daylights out of you!
frighten / scare the (living) daylights out of sb (informal) to frighten sb very much
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, daylights is tagged as noun.
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