to get (one's) juices flowing
- idiom
- Informal
- Reading a captivating book can really get your juices flowing and spark creativity.
Examples
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The workshop was designed to get your juices flowing and inspire new ideas.
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Here are a few things I've asked for help with, to get your juices flowing:
Blog text (21) -
That good enough to get your juices flowing?
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See if it gets your juices flowing.
Fiction book (1994) -
Spain got my juices flowing, Max.
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In the meantime, find below some fun examples to get your juices flowing.
Blog text (2) -
I see something that'll get his juices flowing.
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Rabble-rousing always got his juices flowing.
Fiction book (1998) -
Ooh, deprivation of the senses really gets my juices flowing.
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Listening to upbeat music always helps to get my juices flowing when I need to write.
Synonyms
Cause someone to feel excited and ready to act
Make a person or thing more active, alert and responsive
To feel very eager and happy about something
Make people feel excited and ready to act
To make someone feel more active and alert
To make something more active, alert or interested
Make someone feel excited and full of energy
To give more energy and make someone or something feel lively
To give new energy and interest to a person or thing
To make people feel very excited and want to act
To make someone feel very happy and full of energy
To make someone feel excited about something
Make something more active and interesting
To give new energy and enthusiasm to a person or thing
Make someone or something more lively and interesting
Help your mind start thinking of new ideas
To enjoy something and feel excited by it
Make someone feel very excited and interested in something
Make an event like a party more lively and exciting
Make something more lively by adding music or bright pictures
Make people more interested and eager about something
Antonyms
How Energized
- Informal
- Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'get' (cause) plus 'flowing' (moving smoothly) transparently signals causing something to move, so a learner might guess it means to cause some kind of movement or activity. However, 'juices' here is a metaphor for creative energy or enthusiasm rather than the literal liquid, and that figurative use is not fully predictable for a B1 learner, making the phrase only partially compositional.
Etymology
Get (one's) juices flowing may come from the image of a liquid starting to move inside you or a machine — the juices like blood or oil beginning to flow and make things work. So, get (one's) juices flowing means 'to wake up your energy or ideas'.