In figurative or allusive phrase to swallow one's spittle: (a) in renderings of Job vii. 19, where the reference is to the difficulty of swallowing…
To shrink under pain; to wince.
figurative. To be painfully affected or sharply touched by something; to writhe under reproof, sarcasm, or the like.
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