lie in one's throat
English
editVerb
editlie in one's throat (third-person singular simple present lies in one's throat, present participle lying in one's throat, simple past lay in one's throat, past participle lain in one's throat)
- (obsolete, idiomatic) To lie (tell a falsehood) flatly or outright.
- 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]:
- 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.
References
edit- “throat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.