daylights

/ (ˈdeɪˌlaɪts) /

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pl n

consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)

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Words nearby daylights

day letter, Day-Lewis, daylight, daylight lamp, daylight robbery, daylights, daylight saving, daylight-saving time, daylily, day-liner, day loan

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How to use daylights in a sentence

Then they beat the living daylights out of the Kiwis, 98-71.
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The gown was worn by Diana on several occasions, including to the premiere of James Bond film The Living Daylights.
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They do so by investing in productivity, by outsourcing, and by beating the leaving daylights out of labor.
The SEC Can’t Make CEOs Care About Their Employees|Daniel Gross|September 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
One of the major—and frustrating—features of this recovery has been that capital is beating the living daylights out of labor.
Jobless Rate Falls to Four-Year Low in April|Daniel Gross|May 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST

He also admitted that he “polled the living daylights out of it.”
Joe Manchin's Model for Red-State Democrats|Michael Tomasky|April 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Ht would scare the daylights out of you and every time you moved the peg would hit the sides and the loud buzzer would go off.
The Biography of a Rabbit|Roy Benson
Think of 'em, and then set your teeth and yank the 'tarnal daylights out of her.
The Skipper and the Skipped|Holman Day
But as I was saying, our baseball team has to give theirs a handicap, but their football team can beat the daylights out of ours.
Uller Uprising|Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
He told me I looked like one of the devil's angels—and that I dressed to knock the daylights out of men.
The Call of the Canyon|Zane Grey
I've dug and delved for you six year, and run my daylights out of me, and I won't do it no longer.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877|Various

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