Idiom
dress to kill
Meaning
To dress up so as to impress others (especially of the opposite sex).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She always dresses to kill when she goes to parties.”
“He spent hours picking out the perfect suit because he wanted to dress to kill for the gala.”
“Knowing that the evening would be a pivotal moment for her career, she dressed to kill, hoping to command the attention of every influential person in the room.”
Examples
simple
“She always dresses to kill when she goes to parties.”
contextual
“He spent hours picking out the perfect suit because he wanted to dress to kill for the gala.”
complex
“Knowing that the evening would be a pivotal moment for her career, she dressed to kill, hoping to command the attention of every influential person in the room.”
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