whet one's appetite

Arouse one's interest or eagerness, as in That first Schubert piece whetted my appetite; I hope she sings some others. This idiom, first recorded in 1612, transfers making one hungry for food to other kinds of eagerness.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tyson	['taisən]
Mirjam	MIR-yahm (German), MEER-yahm (Finnish)	Dutch, German, Finnish, Estonian, Slovene
Haimo	-	Ancient Germanic
Clarice	klə-REES	English
Hena	-	Yiddish
Fidelma	fi-DEL-ma	Irish