turn (someone's) crank

To excite or arouse the interest of someone. To be honest, science never turned my crank in school. I was always more interested in literature.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Dietrich	DEET-rikh	German
Esther	ES-tər (English, Dutch), es-TER (French)	English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Jewish, Biblical, Biblical Lati
Rudi	-	German, Hungarian
Moritz	MO-rits	German
VÁClava	-	Czech
Firuz	-	Persian, Tajik