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单词 —— the living daylights out of
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—— the living daylights out of

Do the specified thing to (someone) with great severity: he beat the living daylights out of them he can scare the living daylights out of a cinema audience...
  • He was employed as a ‘scary actor’ - one of the living figures who people the dungeon and scare the living daylights out of visitors.
  • He could be very funny, harshly cruel, and would use his sharp wit and temper to scare the living daylights out of paranoid politicians who had him followed in the night.
  • Thus, swearing evolved a useful purpose as a buffer between fury and the instinct to beat the living daylights out of each other.
From daylights meaning 'eyes', hence 'any vital organ'
See parent entry: daylight
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