British? "[make someone's] teeth water"

[Mark Mandel]

That sets my ears on edge.

[Oops! So did the rich formatting; I forgot to turn it off. Sorry!
Here it is in clear.]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> At 4/4/2008 01:53 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >The speaker made my teeth water with his
> >descriptions of the sport in Davis
> >Straits,—fishing and shooting that we in Scotland would give our ears for.
>
> I'm going to use this instead of "mouth water"!
>
> Joel
>

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Mark Mandel

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