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!"
- 1916, B. M. Bower, The Heritage of the Sioux, ch. 9:
Synonyms
- beat the daylights out of, beat the shit out of, clobber, lick, lower the boom on