wet one's whistle 的定义
- Have a drink, as in I'm just going to wet my whistle before I go out on the tennis court. This expression uses whistle in the sense of “mouth” and may allude to the fact that it is very hard to whistle with dry lips. [Late 1300s]
wet one's whistle 近义词
等同于 sup
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