Look/feel like a million dollars/bucks In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "look/feel like a million dollars/bucks", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Tommy Tran calendar 2021-02-04 03:02

Meaning of Look/feel like a million dollars/bucks

Synonyms:

be in fine fettle

Look/feel like a million dollars/bucks American British informal verb phrase

"Look/feel a million dollars" is often used in Bristish English while "look/feel like a million bucks" is more popular in American English.

To look very attractive and gorgeous or to feel very healthy and strong

I feel like a million bucks whenever I wear suits.

After dealing with all the problems at work, he now feels like a million dollars.

Other phrases about:

to cut a fine figure
Make people admire you because of your appearance
a stone cold fox

Used to refer to a person (especially a woman) who is very sexually appealing

hotsy-totsy

1. Good or fantastic

2. (of a person) Attractive, or sexy

3. A sexually attractive person

clean up nice(ly)

Used to compliment one's appearance that is presentable after grooming oneself

all oak and iron bound/sound as a barrel

Healthy, strong and well

Grammar and Usage of Look/feel like a million dollars/bucks

Verb Forms

  • looks/feels like a million dollars/bucks
  • looked/felt like a million dollars/bucks

The verb "look/feel" should be conjugated according to its tense.

Origin of Look/feel like a million dollars/bucks

This phrase is first found in the Buffalo Evening News of Thursday 18th September 1902:

"At that the Burn’emites looked like a million dollars for the first six innings of the first game. Then the Bisons shaved off a whole lot of hits from Mr. Moriarty’s delivery and scored four, whereupon the Skeeters retired to the swamp. They got in the first bite at that, in the first inning, but after that the game was a blank to them."

It is later found in the same newspaper, the Buffalo Evening News, of Friday 26th June 1903:

"The Hon. James E. Kinney, boxing promoter, who has the new club at Windsor, Ont., blew into town this morning looking like a million dollars. Kinney is on his way to Boston, where he hopes to match Young Corbett and Dave Sullivan for his clubhouse on July 20. Otto Sieloff and Matty Matthews will do battle before J. Kinney’s club July 3."

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