get one's juices flowing

verb

To inspire creativity and thought.

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Meanings

verbget one's juices flowing (third-person singular simple present gets one's juices flowing, present participle getting one's juices flowing, simple past got one's juices flowing, past participle (UK) got one's juices flowing or (US) gotten one's juices flowing)

present singular third person gets one's juices flowing · participle present getting one's juices flowing · past got one's juices flowing · UK participle past got one's juices flowing · US participle past gotten one's juices flowing

  1. idiomaticTo inspire creativity and thought.

    Many people think that the best way to make meetings tolerable is to walk into the room and fire away with lots of ideas to get juices flowing. Such ideas goad uncreative colleagues into building more elaborate strategies to conceal their lack of creativity.

    2008 [2006], Douglas Coupland, JPod, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 182
  2. idiomaticTo sexually excite, to tantalize (a woman).
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APA

get one's juices flowing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20one's%20juices%20flowing

MLA

“get one's juices flowing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20one's%20juices%20flowing. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “get one's juices flowing,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20one's%20juices%20flowing.

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