dressed to kill

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dressed to kill (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Dressed in a very fashionable style.
    • 2000, Tré Cool (lyrics and music), “Fashion Victim”, in Warning, performed by Green day:
      She's a scented magazine/Looking sharp and living clean/Living well and dressed to kill/But she looks like hell to me
    • 2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73:
      During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states, but Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.

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Usually used postpositively.

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