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What does daylights mean?

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Noun
  1. plural of daylight
  2. (slang, chiefly boxing) Eyes.
  3. mental soundness, wits, consciousness.
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I looked up to see a seventeen-year-old standing over me, about to beat the living daylights out of my eleven-year-old body.
He would have beaten the daylights out of anyone who would have treated his only daughter in such a fashion.
So one night she hides in the cemetery and figures to scare the living daylights out of him.
The Professor admits to having gone on much longer than intended about a subject that will bore the daylights out of readers.
The cops aren't smart enough to hear news helicopters chopping over their heads as they kick the daylights out of suspected car thieves.
She sat there, muttering to herself and overall amusing the daylights out of me.

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