| 单词 | to scare the lights out of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto scare (also beat, etc.) the (liver and) lights out of (a person or thing) colloquial. to scare (also beat, etc.) the (liver and) lights out of (a person or thing): to scare, beat, etc., (a person or thing) to an excessive or violent degree.In later use perhaps sometimes associated with light n.1; cf. Phrases 7b at that entry and also daylight n. Phrases 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > frighten [verb (transitive)] > greatly to scare (also beat, etc.) the (liver and) lights out of (a person or thing)1868 to beat (also bore, scare, etc.) the pants off (a person)1925 1868 Shamrock 22 Aug. 783/1 He swore if he ever caught me talking to his daughter again he would ‘kick the liver and lights out of me’. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxix. 259 It most scared the livers and lights out of me. 1956 E. Pound tr. Sophocles Women of Trachis 18 You might start by questioning Likhas, scare the lights out of him, and he might tell you. 1970 T. Fall Ordeal of Running Standing iii. xxx. 246 You've been setting me up and I am going to beat the liver and lights out of you, right now. 2015 G. Amateau Dante of Maury River xxv. 138 She'd hardly cooled down from her race when the fireworks finale went up and scared the lights out of that big bay filly. < as lemmas |
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