knock the living daylights out of
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Good writing will knock the living daylights out of you.
From The Guardian
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
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