daylights

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  1. noun The light of day; sunlight.
  2. noun Daybreak.
  3. noun Daytime.
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  • If you don't behave, I'll beat the living daylights out of you. ' —  Tiger! Tiger!
  • He had kissed the living daylights out of her and all he could say was good night? —  The Man Means Business
  • "Something scared the living daylights out of him." —  The Seventh Scroll
  • They've put numbers on some of the doors now; their lordships went a bit too far in the beginning, when even the doors had to be anonymous; it had worked up to a point but there'd been a couple of cases where a visitor had wandered into Codes and Cyphers without an escort, scaring the daylights out of us all; and they kept having to haul Thompson out of the Ladies, though God knows what he was doing in there because most of the ladies at the Bureau have brogues and rimless bifocals. —  The Kobra Manifesto
  • "Let's go down there right now and blast the daylights out of" em! " —  Tom Swift Jr And His Atomic Earth Blaster
 

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