knock the daylights out of vs knock the living daylights out of

knock the daylights out of

knock the living daylights out of

verb

To greatly excel against (someone or something).
To beat or strike someone.
To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone in a physical fight, especially by knocking out that person.

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