get one's juices flowing
get one's juices flowing verb: to inspire creativity and thought.
Verb
get one's juices flowing (third-person singular simple present gets one's juices flowing, present participle getting one's juices flowing, simple past got one's juices flowing, past participle (UK) got one's juices flowing or (US) gotten one's juices flowing)
- To inspire creativity and thought.
- Many people think that the best way to make meetings tolerable is to walk into the room and fire away with lots of ideas to get juices flowing. Such ideas goad uncreative colleagues into building more elaborate strategies to conceal their lack of creativity.2008 [2006], Douglas Coupland, JPod, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 182
- To sexually excite, to tantalize (a woman).
Forms of get one's juices flowing
| third-person singular present | gets one's juices flowing |
|---|---|
| present participle | getting one's juices flowing |
| past | got one's juices flowing |
| past participle UK | got one's juices flowing |
| past participle US | gotten one's juices flowing |
Questions about get one's juices flowing
- What does get one's juices flowing mean?
- Get one's juices flowing means to inspire creativity and thought.
- What part of speech is get one's juices flowing?
- Get one's juices flowing is a verb.
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- The past tense of get one's juices flowing is got one's juices flowing.
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