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What does dressed to the nines mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic) Very fancily or formally dressed; wearing very showy or splendid clothing.
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Like the other speakers, Adams recalled a dedicated friend, and one who was always dressed to the nines.
Karaoke programmes featuring 6 to 12 year-old children dressed to the nines are particularly popular.
It is up to the viewer to respond to who they are and, perhaps, to imagine why they are dressed to the nines.
Then we hear about the expense claims of councillors and Members of Parliament and see them strutting around dressed to the nines.
Jane dressed to the nines and pranced about like a princess.
She was dressed to the nines. Not in an all-black, yuppity, Coach handbag kind of way, but in a distinctly Mercyx way.

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