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.