beat the tar out of

beat/knock the tar out of somebody

(American informal)

to keep hitting someone hard, or to completely defeat someone We used to fight a lot as kids and he always beat the tar out of me. He was tired of her knocking the tar out of him when they played checkers.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Prissy	PRIS-ee	English
Ingrid	ING-rid (Swedish), ING-ree (Norwegian), ING-grit (German)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German
Hemming	-	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Cledwyn	-	Welsh
Mukesha	-	Hinduism
Esther	ES-tər (English, Dutch), es-TER (French)	English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Jewish, Biblical, Biblical Lati