wet one's beak
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Rinaldo . . . is represented as a gluttonous feeder, and rather disposed to quarrel over his meat; liking also to ‘wet his beak’ in generous liquor."
- "Then, very softly, she says, "I'll stick the kettle on so we can wet our beaks.""
- "“Yo, it's gonna be a few minutes before the acts go on so let's hit the VIP and wet our beaks a li'l bit,” Gotti screamed in Tone's ear over the music."
- ""Giorgio," the Don said, ". . . our Family will now serve only as financial advisors to all the other Families. . . . [W]e must protect everyone's money, for which they will let us wet our beaks.""
- "[I]nvestigators who track organized crime believe that some members have geared up to take advantage of the swift and enormous cash influx . . . looking, as the old Sicilian expression goes, to wet their beaks."
- ""See, the thing about the mob, everybody had to wet his beak. . . . I was supposed to give them a piece of my hard work.""