daylights

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Warm whites emit red to yellow, cool whites emit green to blue, and the daylights are in the blues.

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  1. noun The light of day; sunlight.
  2. noun Daybreak.
  3. noun Daytime.

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  • Randy is more of a vertical, long ball guy and lately, he's been running inside routes which scares the absolute daylights out of me. —  Niners Nation
  • I imagine the good peoples of Alaska are in raptures over Sarah's invitation to every energy corporation to come to their pristine neighborhood & rape the living daylights out of it. —  The Road to Surfdom
  • I've been looking - but I cannot find where you are ... 'beating the daylights out of a bunch of liberals' —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • I tried to turn around to defend myself and get away from them but fell and found myself surrounded by what seemed to be four young guys who started kicking the living daylights out of me from all sides. —  -Towleroad News- [#gay]
  • These diagrams, understood, might scare the daylights out of naive scientists determined to reduce man to mechanical explanation, and explain why religionists will never submit to a reductionist substitute. —  Darwiniana
 

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