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lump in one's throat en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) Strong emotion, either happy or sad, causing someone to be on the verge of crying; a sensation of tightness in the throat associated herewith.
   • After hearing his story I could hardly speak for the lump in my throat.
   • There was a lump in Katie Hayward’s throat as she spoke about the emotional impact of the thefts that have cast a shadow over Britain’s beekeepers. “The heartbreaking thing is that it’s a very close community. The fact that one beekeeper does this to another is the hardest thing of all,” she says. 2017 September 23, “From north Wales to Norfolk, distraught beekeepers ask: who’s stealing our hives?”, in The Observer:

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Translations (11)

fa بغض (on the point of crying) · fr avoir la gorge nouée (on the point of crying) · fr boule dans la gorge (on the point of crying) · cmn 熱淚盈眶 /热泪盈眶 (on the point of crying) · fr avoir la gorge serrée (on the point of crying) · fi pala kurkussa (on the point of crying) · fr nœud dans la gorge (on the point of crying) · ru ком в го́рле (on the point of crying) · ko 목이 메이다 (on the point of crying) · pl ścisk w gardle (on the point of crying) · it nodo in gola (on the point of crying)