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drop-dead

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drop-dead  (informal)
a drop-dead person or piece of clothing is very beautiful (always before noun) Her exquisite figure was shown off to the full in a drop-dead black dress. He turned up to the concert with a drop-dead gorgeous woman on his arm.


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Now, just as she is about to start college, she has decided to undergo breast surgery in order to move up from "smart and pretty" to "smart and drop-dead gorgeous".
Projects that have an absolute drop-dead date that it is logically impossible to extend (spacecraft launch windows and repair of Y2K software bugs are two that come to mind) will temper optimism and trigger a sober, realistic appraisal.
Throw in a domineering female president (Mary McDonnell) and some hand-to-hand femme combat (Starbuck and drop-dead gorgeous robot-clone Number Six go at it in the season I finale) and there you have it--a show Buzz is pretty sure will send lesbians out of this world.
 
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