Meaning of knock the living daylights out of | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To beat or strike someone.
   idiomatic
2. To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone in a physical fight, especially by knocking out that person.
   idiomatic
3. To greatly excel against (someone or something).
   figuratively

Examples

“Boy, the fellows said he just knocked the living daylights out of him, bounced him six feet across the ground.”

“He won the English championship from the six-foot-three-inch, seventeen-stone Sam Hurst, the Staleybridge Infant, knocking the living daylights out of this champion”

“...where new and better depreciation regulations and a 7% business investment credit knocked the living daylights out of normal and historical accounting procedures...”

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