Definition of "the pants off" []

• An intensifier used with some transitive action verbs to indicate that the action is performed with thoroughness, vigor, or complete success. (phrase)

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• "Black candles were burned, bitter powders were sprinkled, crude objects were fashioned of wood or wax, pythons were addressed, and chickens were put to uses that would have shocked the pants off Colonel Sanders, not to mention Julia Child."
• "Before I can continue charming the pants off this dark angel, Randall whips his guitar out and starts a-plucking."
• "What she needed was to drive the five miles to her home, take a warm shower, pour both Wally and herself a glass of wine, and beat the pants off him in a game of cut-throat Scrabble."