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killer:
1. A very attractive person, more often a woman . ' Oh, oh! Killer approaching! ' 2. A person successful with the opposite-sex .
QUOTE: The sheriff and Susan (Katharine Hepburn) about David in Bringing Up Baby (1938):
-- Sheriff: ' Oh! So he's a lady killer?! '
-- Susan: ' A lady killer?! Why he's a regular Don Swan .'
3. A noun and adjective for someone or something remarquable or wonderful.
4. Something (extremely) difficult to understand.
QUOTE: Eric Qualen (John Lithgow) Cliffhanger (1993): ' Love is a killer, isn't it? '
See Also: killer, lady-killer, uxoricide, pickup line,
Quotes Containing killer:
The local sheriff and Susan (Katharine Hepburn) about David (Cary Grant) in Bringing Up Baby (1938): - The Sheriff: ''Oh! So he''s a lady-killer?!'' - Susan Vance: ''A lady-killer?! Why he''s a regular Don Swan. (...) He bops them over, one, two, three, boom. Just like that. He''s a wolf .''
The Sin Killer (Walter Huston) to young Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) in Duel in the Sun (1946): ''Pearl, you''re curved in the flesh of temptation . Resistance is going to be a darn sight harder for you than for females protected by the shape of sows.''
The Sin Killer (Walter Huston) to Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) in Duel in the Sun (1946): 'Pearl, you're curved in the flesh of temptation . Resistance is going to be a darn sight harder for you than for females protected by the shape of sows.'
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