| 词汇 | wet whistle |
| 释义 | Idiom wet whistlewet (your) whistle old-fashioned to have a drink, especially an alcoholic drink.You must be thirsty after all that work - would you care to wet your whistle? wet (one's) whistleTo have something to drink. I'm parched. I'm going to need to wet my whistle before we go on. If you're looking for Barney, he's down at the pub wetting his whistle. wet one's whistleRur. to take a drink. He stopped at the bar to wet his whistle. I don't need a big glass of water. Just enough to wet my whistle. wet (one's) whistleInformal To take a drink. wet one's whistle, toTo have a drink. It is very difficult to whistle with dry lips. An old children’s party game involves eating some dry crackers or bread and attempting to whistle; the first to succeed in doing so wins a prize. The term has been around since the fourteenth century. It appeared in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: “So was her joly whistle wel y-wet” (The Reeve’s Tale). |
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