单词 | daylights |
释义 | daylights (deɪlaɪts ) 1. to beat or knock the living daylights out of someone phrase If you knock the living daylights out of someone, or beat the living daylights out of them, you hit them very hard many times. [informal] 2. scare the living daylights out of phrase If someone or something scares the living daylights out of you, they make you feel extremely scared. [informal] Synonyms: terrify, shock, frighten, scare Idioms: scare the living daylights out of someone to frighten someone very much You scared the living daylights out of me last night. All that screaming. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers beat the living daylights out of someone to attack someone physically, hitting them many times The two men were beating the living daylights out of each other. to defeat someone totally in a competition or contest He enjoys the money and the fame but his true pleasure comes from walking on to a golf course and beating the living daylights out of everyone else. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers |
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