wet one's whistle

English

Verb

wet one's whistle (third-person singular simple present wets one's whistle, present participle wetting one's whistle, simple past and past participle wet one's whistle or wetted one's whistle)

1. (idiomatic) To have a drink; to quench one's thirst.
   • 1876, Wilkie Collins, chapter 9, in The Two Destinies:

     I'll take another glass of the sherry wine, just to wet my whistle, as the vulgar saying is, before I begin.

Synonyms

• wet one's beak

Translations

to have a drink

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: կոկորդը թրջել (hy) (kokordə tʻrǰel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 润喉 (zh) (rùnhóu), 解渴 (zh) (jiěkě)

• Czech: svlažit volátko pf
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kostuttaa kurkkuaan
• German: sich die Kehle befeuchten
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: væta kverkarnar
• Irish: do phíobán a fhliuchadh
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 喉を潤す (nodo o uruosu)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: napić się pf
• Portuguese: molhar a garganta
• Russian: промочить го́рло (ru) (promočitʹ górlo)
• Spanish: mojar el gaznate
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can