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fit to kill

Idioms  
  1. Excessively, immoderately, as in She was dressed up fit to kill. [Colloquial; mid-1800s] Also see dressed to kill.


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A fashion designer’s new assistant begins to wonder what became of her predecessors in the new TV movie “Fit to Kill.”

From Los Angeles Times

They found him snacking on blood bags and looking fit to kill.

From Los Angeles Times

He was fit to kill himself when he found her ladyship was gone," the woman continued with zest; "and Sir Hervey was lit to kill 'em all, and serve 'em right; and now they are searching the country, and a score with them; but it's tolerable sure the villains ha' got away with my lady, some think by Newhaven and foreign parts!

From Project Gutenberg

I knew she'd been having the biggest kind of a job to keep him shut up in this sort of abstract corral, when all the time he was loving her fit to kill, but apparently she had been doing it, successfully.

From Project Gutenberg

All dis mornin' my right eye hez been jumpin' fit to kill, an' now I dun broke dis plate.

From Project Gutenberg