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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

lie in one's throat en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) To lie (tell a falsehood) flatly or outright.
    • I know not where he lodges, and for mee to deuise a lodging, and say he lies heere, or he lies there, were to lye in mine owne throat. c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
lies in one's throat Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
lay in one's throat Tense=Past lexicographic
lain in one's throat Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lying in one's throat Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic