get dressed

1 to put your clothes on:

Go and get dressed!

2 having your clothes on or wearing a particular type of clothes:

Aren't you dressed yet?

half/fully dressed

She lay down fully dressed on the bed.

smartly/well-/elegantly etc dressed

a very well-dressed young man

dressed in

She was dressed in a two-piece suit.

dressed as

The children came dressed as animals.

3 dressed to kill

informal wearing very attractive clothes so that everyone notices and admires you

4 dressed (up) to the nines

informal wearing your best or most formal clothes

Pinky swear & Pinky Promise
n.

An eternally binding act of hooking pinky fingers together in an attempt to seal the deal of a promise that has been made.

The pinky swear
originally indicated that the person who breaks the promise must cut off their pinky finger.

In modern times, pinky swearing is a more informal way of sealing a promise. It is most common among school-age children and close friends.

Mouse

mouse [countable]

1 plural mice a small furry animal with a pointed nose and a long tail that lives in people's houses or in fields:

The cat laid a dead mouse at my feet.
a field mouse .

2 plural mouses a small object connected to a computer by a wire, which you move with your hand to give instructions to the computer:

Select the printer icon and then click the left mouse button.

3 plural mice informal a quiet, nervous person

play (a game of) cat and mouse (with somebody)

to pretend to allow someone to do or have what they want, and then to stop them from doing or having it:

The police played an elaborate game of cat and mouse to trap him.

As quiet as mouse :very quiet

• I'll be as quiet as a mouse
  

Hourglass

hour‧glass [countable]

1 a glass container for measuring time in which sand moves slowly from the top half to the bottom in exactly one hour [↪ egg-timer]

2
hourglass figure

a woman who has an hourglass figure has a narrow waist in comparison with her chest and hips

Mitt

mitt [countable]

1 a type of glove that does not have separate parts for each finger [= mitten]:

ski mitts

an oven mitt (=a thick glove used to protect your hand when you hold hot pans)

2DSB a type of leather glove used to catch a ball in baseball

3 informal especially British English someone's hand:

Robert's put his sticky mitts all over it.

Glove:

Glove: noun

glove [countable]

1 a piece of clothing that you wear on your hand in order to protect it or keep it warm [↪ mitten]:

a pair of gloves

boxing gloves

rubber/leather etc gloves

2

the gloves are off

used to say that people are ready to begin a fight or argument

➔ fit (somebody) like a glove

at fit¹ (1)

; ➔ hand in glove

at hand¹ (34)