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beat the pants off

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[beat/bore/scare etc.] the pants off somebody   (informal)
if someone or something beats, bores, scares etc. the pants off someone, they beat, bore, or scare them completely I hate sunbathing. It bores the pants off me. Horror films scare the pants off me.
See be caught with pants down
See also: beat, pant


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``So far, so good,'' he said, winding up a computer chess game in which he beat the pants off a chess monkey, his computer opponent.
And as far as taste, he says, "it beat the pants off the competition.
She's determined to beat the pants off her husband, Sy, one of these days and she guarantees the whole world will know about it when she does.
 
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