get up a thirst
get up a thirst
To become thirsty, typically due to strenuous activity. You must have gotten up a thirst working out in the garden in this heat!
See also: get, thirst, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
get up a thirst
and work up a thirstFig. to do something that will make one thirsty. (Fixed order.) Jogging makes me work up a thirst. Doing this kind of work always gets up a thirst with me.
See also: get, thirst, up
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- thirst
- work up a thirst
- appetite
- get up an appetite
- have a thirst for
- have a thirst for (something)
- settle down to (something)
- perish with
- perish with (something)
- quench (one's) thirst at any dirty puddle