fit to kill

Definitions

1. 1

   Extremely

   Extremely; lavishly.

   • Well, during the strike Clarence Drum comes pee-rading up to our table, all dolled up fit to kill in his nice lil cap'n's uniform, and somebody says to him, 'Busting the strike, Clarence?'
   • He began to chuckle and, moments later, both of them were laughing fit to kill.
2. 2

   In a manner full of anger or malevolence.

   • There are unbelievable sights. People watch, on television, as ordinary citizens speak up to question ministers and Party bigwigs, while in Moscow, big brother is now frowning fit to kill.
   • Then this Flannagan, when he knows that he can't get what he wants off Hamish neither, he walks off, yelling fit to kill, and gets in beside the girl and drives off, straight down Main Street all the way,
3. 3

   Very well groomed.

   • He was smiling, easy, correct, perfectly delightful, fit to kill.
   • We had to be dressed fit to kill every morning, our fingernails absolutely perfect, our faces made up.
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   1. 4

      Extremely angry.

      • “I think you should consider lowering yourself,” Sherlock said, and in that moment, Tennyson looked fit to kill.
      • He had arrived at the little shack fit to kill, and full of enough steam to run a locomotive engine.
      • 'I reckon your dad wrote to Grace, too, but Joshua 'ad been hoist on 'is own petard and that made 'im fit to kill. '
   2. 5

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fit, kill.

      • Animals, ducks, fowls, etc., are not fit to kill, do not live, and turn out eventually very dear bargains.

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