punch someone's lights out

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To give someone a serious beating using one's fists; to punch someone until he or she is unconscious. idiomatic
    — "My intention was to punch his lights out," Parker said of Garber, "but as I got closer to the mound, my faculties came back and I cooled off. I just him and asked him what was going on."

词形变化

punches someone's lights out present,singular,third-person punching someone's lights out participle,present punched someone's lights out participle,past punched someone's lights out past

词源

Chiefly by the metaphor of extinguishing someone's lights as sources of illumination (thus putting out their lights, e.g., snuffing out their lamps, lanterns, candles, or torches), but the sense of light as sightedness or vision is cognitively adjacent, nearly setting up an interpretation of lights as referring to the eyes themselves, which close (via the eyelids) at the advent of unconsciousness; the potentially variable figurativeness behind by one's lights is comparable here.
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