lick the pants off

English

Alternative forms

• beat the pants off

Pronunciation

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Verb

lick the pants off (someone)

1. (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