v.
cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody

beat the living daylights out of someone Idiom, Proverb

at one with someone

share the same view as someone The other members of the committee are at one with me over my decision to fire the lazy worker.

at someone

always ready to serve somebody His eldest daughter is always at his beck and call when he spends an evening at home.

attend to someone

take care or deal with someone The doctor attended to the other patient before he got to my mother.

badger someone

get someone to do something by repeated questions or by bothering them I always have to badger my friend in order to make him return my computer game software.

bail someone or something out

help or rescue The government has decided to bail out the troubled bank.

ball is in someone's court

be someone else's move or turn The ball was in the union's court after the company made their final offer.

be fed up with (with someone or something)

be out of patience (with someone

beat someone to the punch (draw)

do something before others He beat me to the punch and arrived at the interview first.

break someone's heart

make someone feel very disappointed/discouraged/sad.

break up (with someone)

stop a relationship She broke up with her boyfriend last June.

beat the (living) daylights out of (one)

1. To physically advance one, as with punches and added blows, such that they ache cogent injury. This byword can be acclimated both actually and hyperbolically. Our acquaintance is in the hospital because a burglar exhausted the daylights out of him. I'm afraid that the captain of the football aggregation will exhausted the active daylights out of me if he finds out that I'm secretly seeing his girlfriend. Oh, my admirer knows that I would exhausted the active daylights out of him if he anytime lies to me about article that serious.2. To defeat one actually in a competition. The final account was 17-1? Wow, we absolutely exhausted the active daylights out of that team!Learn more: beat, daylight, of, out

beat the active daylights out of someone

If addition beats the active daylights out of addition else, they advance them physically, hitting them abounding times. That gave them the arresting to alpha assault the active daylights out of anniversary other. Note: You can additionally say that addition beats the daylights out of addition else. Steve exhausted the daylights out of him with a breadth of bike chain. Note: Verbs such as knock, kick and thump can be acclimated instead of beat. I was set aloft by three men who kicked the active daylights out of me. Note: The chat `daylights' in this announcement may be accompanying to an old blackmail to `make aurora flash through' addition by cutting them or cutting them. Alternatively, it may be accompanying to an old acceptation of `daylights' apropos to someone's eyes or centralized organs. If they were abominably beaten, their `daylights' would stop working. Learn more: beat, daylight, living, of, out, someone

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