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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

get one's juices flowing en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  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).

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
got one's juices flowing Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got one's juices flowing Tense=Past lexicographic
gotten one's juices flowing Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
gets one's juices flowing Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
getting one's juices flowing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic