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if looks could kill

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  • phrase idiomatic Used to characterize a look of strong hostility

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In chapter XVI of Bram Stoker's Dracula in a diary entry of Dr. Seward, he notes about the undead Lucy Westerna that "If ever a face meant death--if looks could kill--we saw it at that moment."

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