"dim <someone's> daylights", 1800 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/23/2011 01:54 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>But "headlights" can be part of the anatomy, as well:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlights_(comics)

How could I have forgotten?  But do they participate in "knock the
living headlights out of you"?  Or "I'm going to dim your
headlights"?  (Only Comstock might have said the latter, as he
exercised his true blue, but not gin-eous, pen.)

Joel

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