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单词 stick in one's throat (or craw)
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stick in one's throat (or craw)

1(Of words) be difficult or impossible to say: she couldn’t say ‘Thank you’—the words stuck in her throat...
  • We looked around the candle-lit garden, further words sticking in my throat.
  • I blinked in response as the words stuck in my throat.
  • He wished he could say more, but the words just stuck in his throat.
1.1Be difficult or impossible to accept: the thing that sticks in your throat is that we were successful and you weren’t...
  • One thing that stuck in my throat at Chelsea was young players not realising how privileged they were to be earning huge sums.
  • It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics.
  • Several things about this turn of events stuck in my craw.
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