fit to kill

fit to kill

To an extreme, excessive, or lavish degree. I'm sure she had a great time at the gala—she was dolled up fit to kill when she left here.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fit to kill

Rur. a great deal; to the highest possible degree. We laughed fit to kill when we saw the expression on Jim's face. I had my car gussied up fit to kill.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

fit to kill

Excessively, immoderately, as in She was dressed up fit to kill. [Colloquial; mid-1800s] Also see dressed to kill.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

fit to kill

Slang
To an extreme or elaborate degree: dressed up fit to kill.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • You cannot get a quart into a pint pot
  • you can't get a quart into a pint pot
  • feel fit
  • fit in with (someone or something)
  • serve the purpose
  • serve a purpose
  • give (someone) a fit
  • give someone a fit
  • fiddle
  • fit out
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Years later, Parulskis comes back to these themes in a work he calls "a novel," which is more like a series of episodes from the military days mixed into a curious love story, in which the hero's beloved loves him fit to kill, and almost does, to consummate their love.
Sigitas Parulskis. Trys sekundes dangaus
And when one is so arrayed, we call it not only dressed up, but spruced up, dressed to the nines, dressed fit to kill, in fine feathers, and even (for men only) in tails.
All dressed up: our illustrators don't go back to the fig leaf, but still they cover the clothing question quite well. (The American Illustrators Hall Of Fame)
'I know they are all fit to kill each other because they tell me they are but I've never felt any animosity towards me.
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Another question that arose from the affair was why Hizbullah had apparently moved away from its power base in the southeast to operate in Turkey's large metropoli, and why it had seen fit to kill other Islamists in such a grizzly manner.
HIZBULLAH HORROR - A NATIONAL SHAME