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

From The Crimson Sweater by Barbour, Ralph Henry

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

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. by Various

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.

From "Forward, March" A Tale of the Spanish-American War by Munroe, Kirk

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