lie in one's throat

verb

To lie (tell a falsehood) flatly or outright.

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Meanings

verblie 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)

present singular third person lies in one's throat · participle present lying in one's throat · past lay in one's throat · participle past lain in one's throat

  1. idiomaticobsoleteTo 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]
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