daylights
(slang) A person's eyes (mostly as a target in fighting).
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Helping to choose fabric to reupholster the couch. Which one can I scratch the living daylights out of?
I still find it terribly sad that Laughton did not live to see the ultimate acclaim for that film. Which scared the daylights out of me when I first watched it.
yesterday, I had the music for three Timothy Dalton films stuck in my head...very strange ("The Living Daylights", "License to Kill", and "The Rocketeer")
I was there visiting maybe fifteen years ago, and the traffic scared the daylights out of me. Keep in mind, I've lived in the SF Bay Area and in Southern California. Urban living is a game for the young.
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(slang) A person's eyes (mostly as a target in fighting).
Jason only hit him once, but he really darkened his daylights.
“I was there visiting maybe fifteen years ago, and the traffic scared the daylights out of me. Keep in mind, I've lived in the SF Bay Area and in Southern California. Urban living is a game for the young.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(colloquial) Mental soundness; wits; consciousness.
It scared the daylights out of us!
“Helping to choose fabric to reupholster the couch. Which one can I scratch the living daylights out of?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I still find it terribly sad that Laughton did not live to see the ultimate acclaim for that film. Which scared the daylights out of me when I first watched it.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“yesterday, I had the music for three Timothy Dalton films stuck in my head...very strange ("The Living Daylights", "License to Kill", and "The Rocketeer")”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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