daylights

See also: day-lights

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdeɪlaɪts/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)

Noun

daylights pl (plural only)

  1. plural of daylight
  2. (slang) A person's eyes (mostly as a target in fighting).
    Jason only hit him once, but he really darkened his daylights.
  3. (colloquial) Mental soundness; wits; consciousness.
    It scared the daylights out of us!
    They beat the living daylights out of us.

Derived terms

References

  • (eyes): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

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