daylights
Britishplural noun
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“I chose tennis because I loved that you can just hit the living daylights out of the ball.”
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2023
“It frustrates the daylights out of me, the record is what it is,” Saturday said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
“This should scare the living daylights out of American citizens,” Mr. Scott said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
A goalkeeper taking the final penalty in a shootout and burying it so comprehensively in the back of the net must have scared the living daylights out of Kepa Arrizabalaga because he missed his.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2022
These books were frankly meant to shock their middle- class readers—to scare the daylights out of them—even as they played on their sympathies.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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