Question

Choose the option that replaces the underlined phrase with the correct idiomatic expression.

India 'beat the day out of' New Zealand in the first two one day matches.

• A. Beat the daylights out of
• B. Were beaten by the daylights of
• C. Beat the lights out of
• D. Beat the day's lights out of

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

Beat the daylights out of

The correct form of the idiom is 'beat the daylights out of ' which means to defeat soundly.