knock the living daylights out of vs lick the pants off

knock the living daylights out of

verb
  • To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone in a physical fight, especially by knocking out that person. 

  • To greatly excel against (someone or something). 

  • To beat or strike someone. 

lick the pants off

verb
  • To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone, either in a physical fight or, figuratively, in a competition. 

How often have the words knock the living daylights out of and lick the pants off occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )