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