English

Alternative forms

• lick the pants off
• whip the pants off

Verb

beat the pants off (someone)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone, either in a physical fight or, figuratively, in a competition.
   • 1987 Sept. 6, Bernard Weinraub, "Reagan Tells Congress to Shun Protectionism," New York Times (retrieved 16 Aug 2012):

     American workers can outcompete and beat the pants off anybody, anywhere.

   • 2001 June 24, Janice Castro, "Business," Time:

     Their counterparts in Canada, Europe and Japan made less than half as much, sometimes while beating the pants off them in the marketplace.

Synonyms

• beat the daylights out of
• beat the piss out of
• beat the **** out of
• beat the snot out of
• beat the stuffing out of
• beat the tar out of
• clobber
• knock the living daylights out of
• lick
• lower the boom on

References

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