beat somebody's pants offとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

to 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.

同意語

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

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