stick in someone's throat
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, throat.
Example Sentences
- "'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."