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English Idiom: Wet your whistle
For many people, Friday signals the end of the workweek.
What better way to celebrate the end of the working week than by wetting your whistle?
Hmmm.
No, it has nothing to do with whistling underwater, although some people like to whistle after wetting their whistle.
Many enjoy singing at a karaoke bar, dancing, eating outside, and spending time with friends while wetting their whistles.
Especially in the summertime, many people in Japan go to beer gardens to wet their whistles.
Come on, that was a dead giveaway.
If you haven’t figured it out by now, wet your whistle means to have an alcoholic drink.
It does not always mean to drink alcoholic beverages, but most often, it does.
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On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 71.
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