bring a lump to throat



bring a lump to your throat

if something someone says or does brings a lump to your throat, it makes you feel such strong emotions that you want to cry I thought it was a very moving speech. It almost brought a lump to my throat.
See also: bring, lump, throat

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Samuelesah-MWE-leItalian
'Avshalom-Biblical Hebrew
Adrijan-Croatian, Macedonian
AdolphAD-ahlf, AY-dahlfEnglish
IdaIE-də (English), EE-dah (German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Italian)English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Slovene
Ashplant['æʃpla:nt]