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fit to kill
Idioms and Phrases
Excessively, immoderately, as in She was dressed up fit to kill . [ Colloquial ; mid-1800s] Also see dressed to kill .Example Sentences
A fashion designer’s new assistant begins to wonder what became of her predecessors in the new TV movie “Fit to Kill.â€
Just after the curtains opened, Aunt Loma marched in from backstage, dressed fit to kill in black silk and importance, and sat down in the aisle seat that the Tuttles had saved for her.
Miss Love was in the back, squeezed in between two mountains of grips, boxes, and hatboxes and boy howdy dressed fit to kill in a new fall outfit.
“Crying fit to kill themselves! Why, a starling in the egg’s got more sense. Look at them!â€
Kindly in that they didn’t see fit to kill you fast.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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