Idiom
knock the living daylights out of
Meaning
To beat or strike someone.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The boxer threatened to knock the living daylights out of his opponent.”
“If you touch my car again, I will knock the living daylights out of you.”
“The hero vowed to knock the living daylights out of the villain for destroying his peaceful village.”
Examples
simple
“The boxer threatened to knock the living daylights out of his opponent.”
contextual
“If you touch my car again, I will knock the living daylights out of you.”
complex
“The hero vowed to knock the living daylights out of the villain for destroying his peaceful village.”
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