look like a million dollars

Idioms  

1. Appear attractive or prosperous. For example, The painter did a good job—the house looks like a million dollars. The related feel like a million dollars means “feel healthy,” as in Helen came back from her winter vacation feeling like a million dollars. [c. 1920]

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Example Sentences

With so much fast fashion, you could look like a million dollars for nothing.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2023

Stephen Colbert: Mr. Trump, you look like a million dollars.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2015

I want to look dowdy, of course, but this woman has taste . . .' and before you know it, she'd look like a million dollars.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Wait till you see it—after it's colored—with the chuck-box end of the wagon showing, and the night horses standing back there in the shadows; she will sure look like a million dollars!"

From The Phantom Herd by Bower, B. M.

"Mame, you look like a million dollars in that rag."

From The Day of the Beast by Grey, Zane