beat the daylights out of vs fisticuff

beat the daylights out of

verb

  • To beat (someone) severely 

  • To defeat (someone) thoroughly and decisively, especially in a physical fight. 

fisticuff

verb

  • To engage in a physical fight. 

noun

  • A fistfight. 

How often have the words beat the daylights out of and fisticuff occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )