意味: bone in the throat

n. いらいらするもの

throat イディオム

cut your own throat

hurt yourself, be your own worst enemy By overspending, you will cut your own throat.

down my throat

(See shove down my throat)

ram down your throat

(See shove down my throat)

ram (something) down someone's throat

force one to do or agree to something not wanted The lawyer rammed the settlement down our throats even though we were not happy with it.

shove down my throat

force me to accept it, force me to agree to that, eat that The preacher said that babies are sinners. He's not going to shove that down my throat.

jump down sb's throat

reply sharply and angrily to sth．sb．has said尖锐或粗暴地回答
He jumped down my throat at the mere mention of the subject．一提到这事，他就粗暴地回答我。
Even if I'm wrong，you needn't jump down my throat like that．即使我错了，你也用不着这样粗暴地对待我。

stick in sb's throat

1．be hard to accept难以接受
Having to pay out￡50 for such a small thing really sticks in my throat．为这个小东西要付50英镑的钱太让我难以接受了。
It's his treatment of his aged mother that really sticks in my throat．他对待自己年迈母亲的那种做法实在使我很反感。
2．be hard to say难以启齿
Jane wanted to ask the teacher's pardon，but the words stuck in her throat．简想请求老师原谅，却又难以说出口。

shove down one's throat

Idiom(s): shove sb or sth down sb's throat AND ram sb or sth down sb's throat; force sb
or sth down sb's throat

Theme: PERSISTENCE

to force someone or something on someone. (Slang and a little rude.)
• I don't want any more insurance, and I don't want anyone to shove any insurance down my throat.
• Mary isn't invited to my party, and I don't wish for anyone to ram her down my throat!
• Someone is always trying to force some stupid propaganda down my throat.

have one's words stick in one's throat

Idiom(s): have one's words stick in one's throat

Theme: EMOTION

to be so overcome by emotion that one can hardly speak.
• I sometimes have my words stick in my throat.
• John said that he never had his words stick in his throat.

get a lump in one's throat

Idiom(s): get a lump in one's throat

Theme: CRYING

to have the feeling of something in one's throat—as if one were going to cry.
• Whenever they play the national anthem, I get a lump in my throat.
• I have a lump in my throat because I'm frightened.

get a frog in one's throat

Idiom(s): get a frog in one's throat

Theme: COMMUNICATION - VERBAL

to get soreness or something else in one's throat that prevents one from talking well.
• The speaker got a frog in his throat and had to stop talking for a while.
• Excuse me. I have a frog in my throat.

force down one's throat

cut one's own throat

Idiom(s): cut one's (own) throat

Theme: HARM

[for someone] to experience certain failure; to do damage to someone. (Informal.)
• If I were to run for office, I'd just be cutting my throat.
• Judges who take bribes are cutting their own throats.

ram down one's throat

jump down one's throat

Idiom(s): jump all over someone AND jump down someone's throat; jump on someone

Theme: SCOLDING

to scold someone severely. (Slang.)
• Don't jump on me! I didn't do it!
• If I don't get home on time, my parents will jump all over me.
• Please don't jump all over John. He wasn't the one who broke the window.
• Why are you jumping down my throat? I wasn't even in the house when it happened.

At each other's throats

If people are at each other's throats, they are fighting, arguing or competing ruthlessly.

Frog in my throat

If you have a frog in your throat, you can't speak or you are losing your voice because you have a problem with your throat.

Jump down someone's throat

If you jump down someone's throat, you criticise or chastise them severely.

a frog in my throat

when your throat tickles and makes you cough: "Sorry I can't stop coughing - I've got a frog in my throat."

at each other's throats|each other's throats|throa

prep. phr. Always arguing and quarreling. Joan and Harry have been at each other's throats so long that they have forgotten how much they used to love one another.

cut one's throat|cut|throat

v. phr., informal To spoil one's chances; ruin a person. He cut his own throat by his carelessness. The younger men in the company were cutting each other's throats in their eagerness to win success. John cut Freddie's throat with Mary by telling her lies.

cut-throat|cut|throat

adj. Severe; intense; unrelenting. There is cut-throat competition among the various software companies today.

fly at one's throat|fly|throat

v. phr. To attack you suddenly with great anger. When Tom called Dick a bad name, Dick flew at his throat.

jump down one's throat|jump|throat

v. phr. To suddenly become very angry at someone; scold severely or angrily. The teacher jumped down Billy's throat when Billy said he did not do his homework.

lump in one's throat|lump|throat

n. phr. A feeling (as of grief or pride) so strong that you almost sob. John's mother had a lump in her throat at his college graduation. All during her husband's funeral, Aunt May had a lump in her throat. The bride's mother had a lump in her throat.

shove down one's throat|ram|ram down one's throat|

v. phr., informal To force you to do or agree to (something not wanted or liked.) We didn't want Mr. Bly to speak at our banquet, but the planning committee shoved him down our throats. The president was against the idea, but the club members rammed it down his throat.

stick in one's throat|stick|throat

v. phr. To be something you do not want to say; be hard to say. Jean wanted to ask the teacher's pardon, but the words stuck in her throat.

cut someone's throat

cut someone's throat
1) Be the means of someone's ruin, as in Joe would cut her throat if she got in his way. One can also cut one's own throat, that is, spoil one's own chances, as in Alice cut her own throat by her repeated absences. This hyperbolic term alludes to actual murder (or suicide). [c. 1500]
2) cut one another's throats. Engage in destructive competition. For example, With their price war the two stores were cutting each other's throats. This usage gave rise, by 1880, to the idiom cutthroat competition, for vicious competitive practices.

down someone's throat

down someone's throat
see jump down someone's throat; ram down someone's throat.

frog in one's throat

frog in one's throat
Hoarseness or phlegm in the throat, as in Can you understand me? I've got a frog in my throat. This expression probably owes its origin to the froglike croaks produced by a person with a sore throat. [c. 1900]

lump in one's throat

lump in one's throat
A feeling of constriction in the throat caused by emotion, as in The bride's mother had a lump in her throat. This expression likens the sense of a physical swelling to the tight sensation caused by strong feelings. [Mid-1800s]

ram down someone's throat

ram down someone's throat
Also, shove down someone's throat. Compel to accept or consider, as in That salesman tried to ram a life insurance policy down my throat, or She has a way of shoving her political views down your throat. These terms transfer forcing one to swallow something to forcing acceptance of an object or idea.

throat

throat
see at each other's throats; cut someone's throat; frog in one's throat; jump down someone's throat; lump in one's throat; ram down someone's throat; stick in one's craw.

words stick in one's throat

words stick in one's throat
see stick in one's craw.