prime with

prime (someone or something) with (something)

To prepare someone or something (for some action or activity) by supplying them or it with something. You'll need to prime the lawn mower with three pumps of gasoline before you will be able to start it. He primed me with various pieces of advice and information ahead of my meeting with the prime minister.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

prime something with something

to enable something to start working or functioning with something. Larry primed the pump with a little water, and it began to do its work. We will prime the market for our new product with a free coupon offer.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • (have) got something going (with someone)
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • accompanied by
  • accompanied by (someone or something)
  • accompany
  • a crack at (someone or something)
  • all right
References in periodicals archive
The foundation has since announced that it will award $100,000 to the discoverer of the first prime with at least 10 million digits.
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His list of prime-number trophies includes a host of curios: the largest known prime whose digits are also primes; the largest known prime with one 5 and all the rest 9s; and the largest known prime whose digits are either 0 or 1.
Dubner's primes: searching for twin primes and other denizens of the number world
In 1988, he and a colleague had discovered a previously overlooked Mersenne prime with an exponent between 100,000 and 130,000 (SN: 2/6/88, p.85).
Striking pay dirt in prime-number terrain