Wet the tea

exp.

Heard in Waterford, Antrim, Roscommon and Meath

To brew a pot of tea.

Would you ever wet the tea, I'm dyin' of the drought.

Posh English

Would you ever infuse the tea leaves; I am perishing of thirst.

Same phrase, other counties

• Meath

Related terms

• WetTo pour boiling water over tea leaves in a pot to brew.
• Wet the tayTo add boiling water to tea leaves in order to brew a pot of tea.
• Hows your mother for sugar?.. ans- up to her arse in teaA traditional greeting. The reply indicates that one is grand.
• Rob da milk out of your tea!A description of someone so dishonest they would steal anything, no matter how trivial.
• Tea bagginThe act of placing one's scrotum into another person's eye sockets as a prank or insult.
• Tea towel holderA derogatory, vulgar term for the anus.