get one's juices flowing

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get 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)

1. (idiomatic) To inspire creativity and thought.
   • 2008 [2006], Douglas Coupland, JPod, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 182:

     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.

2. (idiomatic) To sexually excite, to tantalize (a woman).