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getting one's juices flowing

getting one's juices flowing is the present participle and gerund of get one's juices flowing.

Meaning of get one's juices flowing

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)

  1. (idiomatic) 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
  2. (idiomatic) To sexually excite, to tantalize (a woman).

Questions about getting one's juices flowing

What is getting one's juices flowing the present participle and gerund of?
Getting one's juices flowing is the present participle and gerund of get one's juices flowing.

Words near getting one's juices flowing in the dictionary

  1. getting one's hooks into
  2. getting one's hopes up
  3. getting one's house in order
  4. getting one's hump up
  5. getting one's jollies
  6. getting one's juices flowing
  7. getting one's kicks
  8. getting one's knickers in a knot
  9. getting one's knickers in a twist
  10. getting one's leg over
  11. getting one's load on

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