get up an appetite Idiom, Proverb

lose your appetite

not feel hungry anymore, lose the desire to eat If a bug crawled out of your apple would you lose your appetite?

whet your appetite

improve your appetite, cause you to be hungry Would you like to order a salad to whet your appetite?

whet one's appetite

Idiom(s): whet one's appetite

Theme: INTEREST

to cause someone to be interested in something and to be eager to have, know, learn, etc., more about it.
• Seeing that film really whetted my sister's appetite for horror films. She now sees as many as possible.
• My appetite for theater was whetted when I was very young.

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get up an appetite

To become hungry, conceivably due to arduous activity. You charge accept gotten up a appetence alive out in the garden for so long! For some reason, I consistently get up an appetence afterwards activity to a museum.Learn more: appetite, get, up

get up an appetite

Fig. to do article to accomplish one actual hungry. (Usually in this order.) He can't assume to get up an appetence these days. Whenever I jog, I absolutely get up an appetite.Learn more: appetite, get, up

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