Meaning of lump in one's throat | Babel Free

Definitions

Strong emotion, either happy or sad, causing someone to be on the verge of crying; a sensation of tightness in the throat associated with this.

idiomatic

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Examples

“After hearing his story I could hardly speak for the lump in my throat.”

“There was a lump in Katie Hayward’s throat as she spoke about the emotional impact of the thefts that have cast a shadow over Britain’s beekeepers. “The heartbreaking thing is that it’s a very close community. The fact that one beekeeper does this to another is the hardest thing of all,” she says.”

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