Definition
To beat or strike someone.
To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone in a physical fight, especially by knocking out that person.
In Context
- "Boy, the fellows said he just knocked the living daylights out of him, bounced him six feet across the ground."
- "He won the English championship from the six-foot-three-inch, seventeen-stone Sam Hurst, the Staleybridge Infant, knocking the living daylights out of this champion"