wet one's(或 the) whistle

wet one's whistle

• 润润嗓子；喝点酒(尤指某一天第一次喝酒)

• in the proper sense of the word
• rotavated
• pull the breakers
• Fabry-Perot filter
• nanoseconds
• edge o'dark
• limiting adjective
• turtlers
• market-driven
• show one's hand
• chase your (own) tail
• wipe the floor with sb
• have no stomach to do
• hit a blot
• lick （或 knock 或 whip） someone/thing into shape
• daysmen
• overbreak
• merchant princes
• suasively
• breast height
• surprisingnesses
• Bible clerk
• liquate
• do a slow burn
• BCD
• the dust of ages
• photic zone
• what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
• reduce to
• pasturable
• battiest
• Psilorhynchidae
• a (rich) seam of sth
• distinctiveness
• rooming houses
• bloke
• ischia
• robo-candidate
• vagrantness
• ethanoic
• detonations
• Portugal
• binns
• SS-N-18
• chromites
• Bednorz, J.Georg
• jet exhaustion
• disulphuric
• topside
• artificial eye
• compensation deals
• tetraethyl
• fictionalist
• flaneur
• hairnets
• sapor
• Little Corporal
• cytolysins
• angledozers
• uncoffined
• Roman peace
• roast
• make an example of
• possum oak
• gangsterdoms
• Arabicizes
• dic
• oversouls
• oil palm
• have nothing in common
• electeds
• apple-pie bed
• heaver
• Iron Chancellor
• valetless
• rosicrucianisms
• metal alkyl
• bice
• Saint Croix
• free-spoken
• have been and
• tonforce
• Ledbetter, Huddie
• gerenuk
• windsurfers
• footworks
• cold fusions
• technopolises
• amicable action
• strixes
• move the goalposts
• bob at
• give on to
• biboveralls
• speaker efficiency
• intoxication amaurosis
• protectoral
• vernier caliper
• velures
• plushlike