beat the daylights out of イディオム
Beat the daylights out of someone
If someone beats the daylights out of another person, they hit them repeatedly. ('Knock' can also be used and it can be made even stronger by saying 'the living daylights'.)
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, outbeat the (living) daylights out of
accord addition a actual astringent beating. informal Daylight or daylights has been acclimated from the mid 18th aeon as a allegory for ‘eyes’, and actuality has the continued faculty of any basic agency of the body.Learn more: beat, daylight, of, out