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You scared the living daylights out of me.

Have you ever used this term?
What even are daylights?
Daylights is an 18th century slang term for eyes.
In this context; To scare (or beat) the living (an intensifier that means "very" or "real) daylights means to dish out a merciless beating or frighten someone out of their wits.
I hope you or I never have to use this term literally.
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I was mildy surprised how many saying came out of warfare

"the whole nine yards" for instance it came from how long the ammo belts were in WW2 warplanes
Richard65 · M
@AllycatAD you taught me that, then. I didn't know x