Idioms
See daylights in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybeat/knock the (living) daylights out of somebody
- (informal) to hit somebody very hard several times and hurt them very much
- Get out or I’ll beat the living daylights out of you!
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frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of somebody
- (informal) to frighten somebody very much
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