the stuffing out of

alternative the stuffings out of

1. informalnot comparableUsed as an intensifier between a verb and its object: thoroughly, with vigour, to an intense degree.

   The U.S. ski team beat the stuffing out of the Austrians in Alpine, but Norway took the gold home in Nordic.

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   If you ever use that kind of language in front of my girlfriend again, I am going to beat the stuffing out of you.

   Chelsea knocked the stuffing out of Brighton well before the final whistle when they beat them 1–3 at Brighton.

   "This knocks what is vulgarly termed 'the stuffing' out of the case for the prosecution," observed Carlyle, who had been taking a note.

   1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

   Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.

   2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3

   Synonyms: seven bells out of, seven hells out of, the bejeebers out of, the bejesus out of, the crap out of, the daylight out of, the daylights out of, the devil out of