Idiom
beat the stuffing out of
Meaning
To beat very severely.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The bully threatened to beat the stuffing out of him.”
“The boxer promised to beat the stuffing out of his opponent in the ring tonight.”
“After the villain insulted his family, the hero vowed to beat the stuffing out of him before the sun went down.”
Examples
simple
“The bully threatened to beat the stuffing out of him.”
contextual
“The boxer promised to beat the stuffing out of his opponent in the ring tonight.”
complex
“After the villain insulted his family, the hero vowed to beat the stuffing out of him before the sun went down.”
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