An' say, when we git him in the car an' start back let's scare the daylights out of him."
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
Her magic just scared the daylights out of some man.
"We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run"
James Arthur Kjelgaard
"If you sneak off alone to get the general, I'll thrash the daylights out o' you when I get back from seein' the brass hats," he growled.
"A Yankee Flier in Italy"
Rutherford G. Montgomery