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the living daylights out of

the living daylights out of adverb: synonym of the daylights out of.

Adverb

the living daylights out of (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Synonym of the daylights out of.
    • They beat the living daylights out of us.
    • Boy, the fellows said he just knocked the living daylights out of him, bounced him six feet across the ground.1939, Ruth McKenney, Industrial Valley, →ISBN, page 255

Examples of the living daylights out of in a sentence

  • 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 champion1954, Denzil Batchelor, Big Fight: The Story of World Championship Boxing, →OCLC, page 65:
  • ...where new and better depreciation regulations and a 7% business investment credit knocked the living daylights out of normal and historical accounting procedures...1963, “10 second summary”, in Business Management, volume 25, page 38:

Synonyms of the living daylights out of

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Questions about the living daylights out of

What does the living daylights out of mean?
The living daylights out of means synonym of the daylights out of.
How do you use the living daylights out of in a sentence?
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
What part of speech is the living daylights out of?
The living daylights out of is an adverb.

Words near the living daylights out of in the dictionary

  1. the life out of
  2. the lights are on but no one's home
  3. the lights are on but nobody's home
  4. the lights are on, but nobody's home
  5. the line is busy
  6. the living daylights out of
  7. the living shit out of
  8. the long and short
  9. the long and the short
  10. the long way around the barn
  11. the longest pole knocks the persimmon

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