"cheek music", 1800, 1802

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:19 AM, George Thompson
<george.thompson at nyu.edu> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did it ever change to headlights? I might still get inclined to _knock the living daylights out of_ somebody.

I recall that from the very early '40's, as used in an East-Texas
grandparental warning WRT, e.g. the real world:

"If you don't heed me, you're going to get the living daylights
knocked out of you, out yonder!"

Otherwise, I'm entirely unfamiliar with the expression. Strange. But, of course,

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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