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look the part

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look the part

to look suitable for a particular situation. If you want to get a job as a fashion buyer, it helps if you look the part.

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look the part

to appear to be suited to a particular type of work. You'd never guess he was a security guard – he doesn't look the part at all.

See also: look, part

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Fagin had no fear but that he would look the part to perfection. Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context Secondly, because I am not so vain as to think that I look the part. Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

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