lick the stuffing out of

Idioms  

1. Also, lick the tar out of. See under beat the living daylights out of.

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Example Sentences

"And we're going to lick the stuffing out of you!"

From Project Gutenberg

"Seems like every feller in the old town is wild with the news that they're a-goin' to have a boat like ours, a present from the big manufacturer, Mr. Gobbler; and they all say they expect to lick the stuffing out of poor old Riverport this time, because the boys in their town have always been more like water ducks than we have, rowing boats, skating, making ice-boats, and all such things."

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Of course it was a perfectly useless thing to do, for Sampson's fleet is powerful enough to lick the stuffing out of the whole Spanish navy, if only it could get the chance.

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"I'd back him to lick the stuffing out of anything you've got in this unit, anyway," Cazenove snorted.

From Project Gutenberg

Why," he went on, a look of holy enthusiasm on his fine old face, "do you realize that I can always lick the stuffing out of that boy, good player as he is, simply by taking a little trouble?

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