Look Like A Million Dollars Definition & Meaning

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look like a million dollars Idioms

1. Appear attractive or prosperous. For example, The painter did a good job—the house looks like a million dollars. The related feel like a million dollars means “feel healthy,” as in Helen came back from her winter vacation feeling like a million dollars. [c. 1920]

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With so much fast fashion, you could look like a million dollars for nothing.

From Los Angeles Times

Signature “If you have good skin and good hair, you can wear anything and look like a million dollars,” Ms. Bicaj said.

From New York Times

“Sometimes we look like a million dollars, sometimes we look like $75,000, sometimes we look like nothing,” Ryan said.

From New York Times

I want to look dowdy, of course, but this woman has taste . . .' and before you know it, she'd look like a million dollars.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But as you sit there you look like a million dollars, as they say in your country."

From Project Gutenberg

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