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Daylights

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The eyes, which let daylight into the sensorium.

To darken one’s daylights. To give one such a blow on the eyes with the fist as to prevent seeing. (Pugilistic slang.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Davy
Davy (Snuffy)
Davy Jones’s Locker
Davy’s Sow
Dawson (Bully)
Day
Day of the Barricades
Day of the Dupes
Day-dream
Daylight
Daylights
Days set apart as Sabbaths
Daysman
Dayspring
Daystar (The)
De Bonne Grâce (French)
De Die in Diem
De Facto
De Haut en Bas
De Jure (Latin)
De Lunatico Inquirendo (Latin)