Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

the living daylights out of

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English

Syllables: the liv-ing -day-light-s out of
IPA

41

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

5

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Synonym of the daylights out of.

Informal

Example Sentences

"They beat the living daylights out of us."
"Boy, the fellows said he just knocked the living daylights out of him, bounced him six feet across the ground."
"He won the English championship from the six-foot-three-inch, seventeen-stone Sam Hurst, the Staleybridge Infant, knocking the living daylights out of this champion"
"...where new and better depreciation regulations and a 7% business investment credit knocked the living daylights out of normal and historical accounting procedures..."

Usage

Informal

Synonyms

seven bells out of seven hells out of the bejeebers out of the bejesus out of the crap out of the daylight out of the daylights out of the devil out of the dickens out of the flying fuck out of the fuck out of the fuckola out of

Questions

What does the living daylights out of mean?: Synonym of the daylights out of.

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