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beat the tar out of
vs
knock the daylight out of
beat the tar out of
verb
Synonym of beat the stuffing out of
knock the daylight out of
verb
Synonym of beat the daylights out of
How often have the words
beat the tar out of
and
knock the daylight out of
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)