living daylights
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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 scared the living daylights out of me,” he said.
From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2022
“This should scare the living daylights out of American citizens,” Mr. Scott said.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2022
Tuile cookies are notoriously difficult to make, so the idea of making them potentially more finicky by changing the recipe and adding quinoa scared the living daylights out of me.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2022
“Can you run fast?” she asks, as if she has not just scared the living daylights out of us.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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