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dressed to the teeth
adjective as in dressed to the nines
adjective as in stylish
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
Crowds as large as 2,000 would gather there “dressed to the teeth” to sit in the hot summer sun and watch the Greenville Bucks plays ball.
If the kids who turned up were not dressed to the teeth, they were at least dressed to the noses.
"A commonplace woman of the demimonde, as naked as can be, shamelessly lolls between two dandies dressed to the teeth," exclaimed one critic.
In time the great and near-great began calling him Kiki, and whenever he gave a party, they flocked to it dressed to the teeth.
Dressed to the teeth in a scarlet and white uniform and waving an 18-in. cigarette holder, Mezzo Soprano Ris� Stevens brought the house down in her entrance as the bored host, Prince Orlofsky.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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