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#1 2007-10-13 23:02:03

espertus
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"livid daylights" for "living daylights"

Examples:

  • Blog post : “Jim Cramer is Scaring the Livid Daylights Out of Me” “link”:
  • Online forum post : “Because people there piss the livid daylights out of me.”

    The expression “livid daylights” was correctly used in Hilary Corke’s translation of the phrase “le matin livide” in Baudelaire’s poem “Le Revenant” (“The Ghost”).

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