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词组 living daylights; daylights
释义 living daylights; daylights
verb
life; spirit UK, 1960
Ultimately from “daylights” (the eyes) but here in the consequent sense, “vitality” or “vital organs”.
  • Enron secured the distinction of being the only corporation to be the subject of an Amnesty International report after it hired goons to beat the living daylights out of villagers protesting against pollution from a power plant in India. — The Guardian, 20 January 2002
  • ‘Al Qaeda [...] was not decimated; it was sufficiently undecimated to murder 34 people, injure 200 and scare the daylights out of Americans everywhere. — Greg Pierce, The Washington Times, 29 May 2003
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