knock the living daylights out of vs whoop

knock the living daylights out of

verb
  • To beat or strike someone. 

  • To greatly excel against (someone or something). 

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

whoop

verb
  • To beat, to strike. 

  • To make a whoop. 

  • To shout, to yell. 

  • To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough. 

  • To defeat thoroughly. 

noun
  • A bump on a racetrack. 

  • A loud, eager cry, usually of joy. 

  • A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough. 

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