beat the daylights out of



beat/knock the (living) daylights out of somebody

to hit someone very hard many times I'll knock the living daylights out of him if I catch him doing it again!
See also: beat, daylight, of, out

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
AlAL English
Rae[rei]
Gjergj-Albanian
Onfroi-Medieval French
XerxesZURK-seez (English)History
JoakimYO-ah-kim (Swedish), YO-ah-keem (Finnish)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Serbian, Macedonian