dressed to kill

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Adjective

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.

Usage notes

Usually used postpositively.

Translations

dressed in a very fashionable style

• French: tiré à quatre épingles (fr), sur son trente-et-un (fr)
• Russian: разоде́тый в пух и прах (razodétyj v pux i prax, literally “clothed in fur and dust”)
• Spanish: de punta en blanco