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beat the poop out of
vs
beat the shit out of
beat the poop out of
verb
To defeat (someone) decisively in a fight or a competition.
To beat (someone) severely.
beat the shit out of
verb
To defeat (someone) decisively in a fight or a competition.
To beat (someone) severely.
How often have the words
beat the poop out of
and
beat the shit out of
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)