Meaning of stick in someone's throat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To be too difficult to speak.
2. To cause an aching sensation in the throat as if something is stuck there.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, throat.

Examples

“'Tis this confounded London fog that sticks in my throat.”

“What sticks in the throat is the manner in which the appointment has been presented.”

“On February 25 he told a CDU British zonal meeting that the question of finance administration was “stupid” and “beginning to stick in my throat."”

“When Levin changed his first hundred-rouble note to pay for liveries for the footman and the doorman, he could not help thinking that these liveries, which were of no use to anyone but vitally necessary, to judge from the Princess's and Kitty's surprise at the mere suggestion that it would be possible to dispense with them—these liveries would cost as much as two summer labourers, that is, about three hundred days' work from Easter to Michaelmas, and hard grind every day from early morning to late in the evening, so that hundred-rouble note definitely did stick in the throat.”

“This mission is rotten with absurdities that stick in her throat, but they have to start somewhere.”

“In truth, it seems that the words 'I do not know' stick in every physician's throat.”

“to that hour of complete self-recognition before God when excuse and argument stick in the throat, then the intrinsically fallen and “base” property he has used with love will come forward and testify for him.”

“For once, my voice doesn't stick in my throat. “I am studying hard. To be a dancer. I'm not planning to become an engineer. Or a doctor.””

“I look at him; the words I want to say stick in my throat.”

“His mother wants to add to the story, but her words stick in her throat.”

“His breath stuck in his throat.”

““It may not be like that,” he said, as soon as his heart was no longer rising to stick in his throat.”

“And as I kept staring down at the car while the traffic warden moved slowly away, I felt my next breath stick in my throat.”

“I took so many of them, felt them stick in my throat and I swallowed and swallowed to get them down, and I sat with that bottle and chanted, more, more, more, and then the bottle was nearly empty and I thought suddenly, Wait, I don't want to die”

“Realizing he that he had just revealed his guilt, he swiftly spun around to flee, only to have a sword stuck in his throat.”

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