lie in one's throat

English

Verb

lie 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)

1. (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

• “throat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.