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Mouth Waters

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That makes my mouth water. “Cela fait venir lʹeau à la bouche.” The fragrance of appetising food excites the salivary glands. The phrase means—that makes me long for or desire it.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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