knock the tar out of (someone)
knock the tar out of (someone)
1. To strike continuously and violently. Aw man, when my dad finds out that I broke the window, he's going to knock the tar out of me!
2. To defeat soundly. A: "Did you guys win today?" B: "We sure did! We knocked the tar out of them: 10-0!"
See also: knock, of, out, tar
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- beat the living daylights out of, to
- lick the pants off (someone)
- whip
- whip (one)
- whipped
- pwn
- be out like a light
- be/go out like a light
- dead to the world
- Bondi