Irresistible, overpowering, Lascinating, or bewitching, so as to coinpel admiration and notice.
“Those eyes were made so killing.”
Pope: Rape of the Lock, v 64.
A killing pace. Too hot or strong to last; exceptionally great; exhausting.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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