English Dictionary

knock the living daylights out of

動詞

慣用表現 比喩的用法

(idiomatic) To beat or strike someone. / (idiomatic) To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone in a physical fight, especially by knocking out that person.

日本語の意味

（慣用句）相手を殴る、むち打つ、あるいは打撃を与えること。 / （慣用句）物理的な戦いで相手を徹底的かつ決定的に倒す（特にノックアウトする）こと。

If he insults her family again, Mark will knock the living daylights out of him.

もし彼がまた彼女の家族を侮辱したら、マークは彼をめった打ちにするだろう。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) To beat or strike someone.

Boy, the fellows said he just knocked the living daylights out of him, bounced him six feet across the ground.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone in a physical fight, especially by knocking out that person.

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

意味（3）

(figuratively) To greatly excel against (someone or something).

...where new and better depreciation regulations and a 7% business investment credit knocked the living daylights out of normal and historical accounting procedures...

knocks the living daylights out of （ present singular third-person ）

knocking the living daylights out of （ participle present ）

knocked the living daylights out of （ participle past ）

knocked the living daylights out of （ past ）