"Dressed to kill" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gay, trickly^, flowery, glittering; new gilt, new spangled; fine as a Mayday queen, fine as a fivepence^, fine as a carrot fresh scraped; pranked out, bedight^, well-groomed. in full dress &c (fashion) 852; dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue [Fr.], en grande toilette [Fr.]; in best bib and tucker, endimanche [Fr.]. showy, flashy; gaudy &c (vulgar) 851; garish, gairish^; gorgeous. ornamental, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
