beat the living daylights out of
Example Sentences
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Be prepared to watch children savagely beat the living daylights out of each other on multiple occasions.
From New York Times
A new "Drunk History" recalls a time in 1851 when a congressman reached across the aisle to beat the living daylights out of a political rival.
From Los Angeles Times
Frankly, if it inspires little girls to wear what they wish during the day and slip out at night in a bin bag or a burka, their pajamas or their underwear worn over spandex to beat the living daylights out of the Taliban at night, I’ll take it.
From Newsweek
Will her hulking, jealous ex find him and beat the living daylights out of him?
From New York Times
“I’m not quite sure when it began, and I’m sure most of the teenage boys in America want to beat the living daylights out of whomever started it,” she recently wrote on her blog.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
