make one's mouth water

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1. 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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make one's mouth water

Elsewhere, he can make one's mouth water with straightforward description: "I caught a ten-pound sea bass and stuffed it with shrimp and fresh crabmeat, then cooked it over slow coals."

From Time Magazine Archive

Apart from the article, this picture alone is calculated to make one's mouth water.

From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by Ross, P. T.

The pictures are enough to make one's mouth water and give one an appetite for Arabian dates.

From Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children by Zwemer, Samuel Marinus

Others were mounted on the splendid Andalusian horses, which make one's mouth water with desire to ride them.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various

The sight of it was quite enough to make one’s mouth water.

From Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall by Vosburgh, R. G.