wet one's whistle

Have a drink, as in I'm just going to wet my whistle before I go out on the tennis court. This expression uses whistle in the sense of "mouth" and may allude to the fact that it is very hard to whistle with dry lips. [Late 1300s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tess	[tes]
Nerea	-	Basque
Dawood	-	Arabic
Ozias	-	Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Shichiro	shee-chee-ṙo:	Japanese
Bessarion	-	Late Greek