Dressed to Kill

Also, dressed to the nines. Elaborately attired, as in For the opening of the restaurant she was dressed to kill, or At the opera everyone was dressed to the nines. The first of these hyperbolic expressions dates from the early 1800s and uses kill in the sense of "to a great or impressive degree." The phrase to the nines in the sense of "superlative" dates from the late 1700s and its original meaning has been lost, but the most likely theory is that it alludes to the fact that nine, the highest single-digit numeral, stands for "best." Also see gussied up.

The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: dressed in fancy or formal clothing
  Synonyms: dressed, dressed-up, dressed to the nines, dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up, togged up

Dressed to Kill could refer to:

• Dressed to Kill (1980 film), directed by Brian De Palma
• Dressed to Kill (1941 film), with Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, and Sheila Ryan
• Dressed to Kill (1946 film), aka Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill
• Dressed To Kill (album), 1975 album by Kiss
• Dress to Kill, the name of a stand-up comedy routine by Eddie Izzard
• Dressed To Kill (song), a song by New Found Glory
• "Dressed to Kill", a 1983 single by The Nolans
• Dressed to Kill (book), a book by Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer that asserts a link between wearing bras and developing breast cancer

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