wet the baby's head
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]wet the baby's head (third-person singular simple present wets the baby's head, present participle wetting the baby's head, simple past and past participle wet the baby's head or wetted the baby's head)
- (figuratively) To celebrate the birth of a baby by drinking alcohol.
- 2011, Sheila Kitzinger, Rediscovering Birth:
- He goes off to the pub with his mates to drink the time away, and after a phone call to the hospital that tells him he is now a father he 'wets the baby's head' with yet more alcohol.