lick the pants off

English

Alternative forms

beat the pants off

Verb

lick the pants off (someone )

(transitive, idiomatic) To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone, either in a physical fight or, figuratively, in a competition.
- 1916, B. M. Bower, The Heritage of the Sioux, ch. 9:
  "Dang you, Luck, if you wasn't such a little runt I'd come up there and jest about lick the pants off you!"

Synonyms

beat the daylights out of, beat the shit out of, clobber, lick, lower the boom on

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