"knock the stuffing out of" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knocks the stuffing out of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocking the stuffing out of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocked the stuffing out of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocked the stuffing out of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "knock the stuffing out of (third-person singular simple present knocks the stuffing out of, present participle knocking the stuffing out of, simple past and past participle knocked the stuffing out of)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Chelsea knocked the stuffing out of Brighton well before the final whistle when they beat them 1-3 at Brighton.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3",
          "text": "Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause (someone, a team) to lose energy and confidence."
      ],
      "id": "en-knock_the_stuffing_out_of-en-verb-hW8ZKYGX",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) To cause (someone, a team) to lose energy and confidence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knock the stuffing out of"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knocks the stuffing out of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocking the stuffing out of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocked the stuffing out of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocked the stuffing out of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "knock the stuffing out of (third-person singular simple present knocks the stuffing out of, present participle knocking the stuffing out of, simple past and past participle knocked the stuffing out of)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Chelsea knocked the stuffing out of Brighton well before the final whistle when they beat them 1-3 at Brighton.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3",
          "text": "Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause (someone, a team) to lose energy and confidence."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) To cause (someone, a team) to lose energy and confidence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knock the stuffing out of"
}