knock the living daylights out of

1. Also,. See beat the living daylights out of.

Example Sentences

Good writing will knock the living daylights out of you.

From The Guardian

The convicts cheer when a Chapman woman takes control--when one announces to a boozing boyfriend, "I'm gonna take off my kid gloves/ Put on some boxing gloves/ And knock the living daylights out of you."

From Time Magazine Archive

A chief item was that after laymen have learned to regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing but electricity, the physicists adduce the neutron which has no charge and therefore cannot exist�although a stream of neutrons will knock the living daylights out of a block of paraffin.

From Time Magazine Archive