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Beat the tar out of
verb
Definitions
1.
verb
To beat very severely.
"At the fiesta, the kids beat the stuffing out of the pinata, and their parents beat the stuffing out of a drunk who walked up and made threats."
2.
verb
To trounce, outdo, or triumph over.
"The U.S. ski team beat the stuffing out of the Austrians in Alpine, but Norway took the gold home in Nordic."
Synonyms
trounce
beat
beat the crap out of
beat the daylight out of
beat the shit out of
beat the tar out of
knock the daylight out of
beat the stuffing out of
beat the daylights out of
beat someone's brains out
knock the living daylights out of
beat to a pulp
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