Maybe the guy beat his wife to death with it.

"This is the man who beat my daughter to death?"

And again, we're not going to beat this thing to death.

"Was I just supposed to stand by and watch while you beat him half to death?"

In a couple of years I could beat him to death.

I'd probably beat her to death or close to it.

His wife made him angry, so he beat her to death.

She would rather they had beaten her to death than own him.

You nearly beat me to death once when I was a child.

Probably loved my father right until the moment he beat her to death.