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
VicenÇ	-	Catalan
Yered	-	Biblical Hebrew
Mahometus	-	Arabic (Latinized)
Patrice (1)	pat-REES	French
Alger	['ældʒə]
Efemena	-	Western African, Urhobo