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1.2An appreciable distance or difference between one person or thing and another.
‘their views on education are so close that it's difficult to see daylight between them’
‘the growing daylight between himself and the leading jockey’
‘Garryowen responded quickly and two tries and a penalty put daylight between the teams.’
‘The Blues now began to see daylight between themselves and their hosts with a 12-23 lead.’
‘Brent Peters' men finally put some daylight between the two sides in the 90th minute.’
‘Joe McCann and Sean McDermott continued to score vital baskets to keep daylight between the teams.’
Phrases
— the living daylights out of
Do the specified thing to (someone) with great severity.
‘he beat the living daylights out of them’
‘he can scare the living daylights out of a cinema audience’
‘He had a sudden urge to beat the living daylights out of Taylor.’
‘Why are we not working right now to develop their good will prior to our bombing the daylights out of them?’
‘The Professor admits to having gone on much longer than intended about a subject that will bore the daylights out of readers.’
‘We've got a reputation of being real nasty when it comes to contracts, because I'll scratch the daylights out of a contract, and they don't like that.’
‘The young man grabbed Kayla's arms before she could beat the daylights out of the captain.’
‘These true stories of dark doings, loose ends, and unexplained terror keep us up at night, defy all reason, and scare the living daylights out of us.’
‘So one night she hides in the cemetery and figures to scare the living daylights out of him.’
‘I told him since he seemed unable to assure that my daughter would be safe in his school I'd sue the living daylights out of him, the school, the city etc.’
‘He wisely refrained from punching the daylights out of the man.’
‘The cops aren't smart enough to hear news helicopters chopping over their heads as they kick the daylights out of suspected car thieves.’
‘"You scared the living daylights out of me, " Natalia whispered harshly.’
‘Performing at Prithvi has terrified the daylights out of me.’
‘It had him pinned and was choking the daylights out of him.’
‘The snooty royal English sat on their powdered bums and taxed the daylights out of the poor citizens.’
‘It turned out to be nothing, but scared the daylights out of me.’
‘One day in an ice-stricken back alley I saw a fat little man beat the daylights out of four larger, stronger assailants.’
‘Have I mentioned that heights scare the living daylights out of me?’
‘He would have beaten the daylights out of anyone who would have treated his only daughter in such a fashion.’
‘He was employed as a ‘scary actor’ - one of the living figures who people the dungeon and scare the living daylights out of visitors.’
‘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.’
‘Thus, swearing evolved a useful purpose as a buffer between fury and the instinct to beat the living daylights out of each other.’
‘She sat there, muttering to herself and overall amusing the daylights out of me.’
‘The only reason why I didn't beat the living daylights out of Travis was because Lisa begged me not to.’
‘I growled and tried to figure out a way to get some slack for my arms so that I could beat the living daylights out of the idiot that had hold of me.’
‘He teases the daylights out of me.’
‘I would take them out into the front street and beat the living daylights out of them.’
‘It was such a treat to shock the daylights out of him.’
‘We stayed friends however, until he decided that girls had germs, and promptly settled for bugging the daylights out of me.’
‘You hurt one man of mine and knocked the daylights out of another, stole my horse and tried to kill me.’
‘She wasn't ashamed to admit he scared the living daylights out of her.’
‘Birds were chirping brightly outside… I wanted to punch their daylights out.’
‘But some teams overcame that inherent deficit by slugging the daylights out of the ball on 0-0.’
‘The film looks like jolly fun, but includes images that will scare the daylights out of little kids.’
‘"Yeah and you scare the living daylights out of me because of it.’
‘He could be very funny, harshly cruel, and would use his sharp wit and temper to scare the living daylights out of paranoid politicians who had him followed in the night.’
see daylight
1Gain public exposure or attention.
‘old photographs that rarely see daylight’
‘Sorry about all the comments that were submitted yesterday evening and that didn't see daylight till this morning.’
‘But I see daylight down the road and feel it is part the Master's plan.’
‘Also on the 24th, the long-awaited Peter Gabriel album will finally see daylight.’
‘Since the man did not see daylight in the English-language press, I am going to recount several of his more famous appearances.’
‘And why an entire generation has entered the world and reached maturity with plans for a new Bronx Terminal Market just starting to see daylight.’
‘I never thought it would see daylight again.’
‘If all the circumstances of his killing see daylight, the pressure for a full public inquiry will be irresistible.’
‘The Democrats can see daylight ahead.’
‘It is just a fact and its real meaning will never see daylight ".’
‘The memorable trips are there, captured in old photographs that rarely see daylight.’
be completed, be accomplished, see light of day, see the light of day