DAYLIGHTS Definition & Meaning

daylights

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plural noun

consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the ( living ) daylights out of someone )

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"It scared the daylights out of me," he said.

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"It frightened the living daylights out of me," he said.

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“It scares the daylights out of me to see the numbers on the scale going up,” she said.

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At the most wonderful time of the year, there is one tradition that John Maguire remembers fondly: his Liverpudlian grandmother trying to scare the daylights out of him.

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“I chose tennis because I loved that you can just hit the living daylights out of the ball.”

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daylights

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