make one's mouth water

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Cause one to eagerly anticipate or long for something, as in Those travel folders about Nepal make my mouth water . This metaphoric term alludes to salivating when one anticipates food and has been used figuratively since the mid-1600s, whether it refers to food, as in The sight of that chocolate cake made her mouth water , or not.

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