Idiom
beat the daylights out of
Meaning
To beat (someone) severely.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The bully threatened to beat the daylights out of him.”
“The angry man shouted that he would beat the daylights out of anyone who touched his car.”
“The protagonist vowed to beat the daylights out of his rival if he ever dared to show his face in the village again.”
Examples
simple
“The bully threatened to beat the daylights out of him.”
contextual
“The angry man shouted that he would beat the daylights out of anyone who touched his car.”
complex
“The protagonist vowed to beat the daylights out of his rival if he ever dared to show his face in the village again.”
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