knock the stuffing out of sb：使某人丧失信心（或委靡不振）

to make sb lose their confidence and enthusiasm

If something knocks the stuffing out of you when you are feeling enthusiastic or confident about something, it causes you to lose your enthusiasm or confidence.

这里的knock也可以用beat/kick替换。

千万不要从knock the stuffing out of sb字面意思来翻译这个短语为：把某人打出屎来，也不把某人打的屁滚尿流。

例：

Men have had a hard time for the last fifteen years. The women's movement knocked the stuffing out of them.

男性在过去的 15 年中一直灰头土脸。妇女运动挫败了男人的傲气。

Then I caught flu, which really knocked the stuffing out of me.

那时我得了流行性感冒，这病真把我搞得萎靡不振。

His failure in the exam has knocked all the stuffing out of him.

他考试未及格便一蹶不振。

Two guys mugged me and then knocked the stuffing out of me last night.

昨晚有两个家伙抢劫了我，这事让我萎靡不振。

His recent illness seems to have knocked all the stuffing out of him.

他最近一场病似乎使他元气大伤。

“Knocking the stuffing out of me won’t make Aunt Marge forget what I could tell her, ”he said grimly.

“如果我吃了苦头，玛姬姑妈就不会忘记我可能告诉她的事情了。”哈利阴郁地说。