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The phrase "dressed to kill" is correct and usable in written English.
It is most often used to describe someone who is dressed in a very attractive or fashionable manner. For example, "She was dressed to kill in a glamorous evening gown."
Idiom
Dress to kill.
When someone is dressed to kill, they are dressed very smartly.
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Cinderella's stepsisters taunt that she is "dressed to kill"; the witch calls Rapunzel's suitor a "lounge-lizard"; the Devil's grandmother reads a newspaper.
On the evening of the Feud, Jenni turns up in an all-in-one black jumpsuit, and Wolfie is "dressed to kill in an electric-blue ska suit and white vinyl brothel-creepers with steel toecaps inlaid".
Garments themselves were almost the least important aspect of the enterprise, although Fiorucci's New York art director, Maripol, styled the young Madonna (whose brother worked at East 59th), and in 1979 Sister Sledge sang in The Greatest Dancer, "That man is dressed to kill … He wears the finest clothes, the best designers", Fiorucci among them.
The dangerous beauty in his painting is dressed to kill and, considering the over-saturated colors and her dramatic posture --mouth open wide and hand pressed to breast --one can almost hear a high note, close to a scream, soaring over her audience.
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"Most of them are dressed to kill and camera-ready".
At upscale restaurants, hotels and bars from California to New York, cocktails are dressed to kill.
They may or may not die for Elian, but they are dressed to kill.
When the black car pulled up at 9 15, she was dressed to kill.
Your highness dressed up in all your finest and Kate as well will be dressed to kill.
I was dressed to kill, with a suit, shirt and tie, and it was 90 degrees and humid outdoors and worse when we stopped in Phoenix.
This year, the dogs, both tan in color and the same size, are dressed to kill in matching Chanel suits accessorized with jewelry and sunglasses.
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