dressed to kill en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, not-comparable) Dressed in a very fashionable style.
She's a scented magazine/Looking sharp and living clean/Living well and dressed to kill/But she looks like hell to me
2000, Tré Cool, “Fashion Victim”, in Warning, performed by Green day: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.
2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73:
Translations (3)
fr sur son trente-et-un (dressed in a very fashionable style) · es de punta en blanco (dressed in a very fashionable style) · fr tiré à quatre épingles (dressed in a very fashionable style)