thoat

• throat [countable]
• 1 the passage from the back of your mouth to the top of the tubes that go down to your lungs and stomach:
• The singer complained of a sore throat after Wednesday's show.
• 2 the front of your neck:
• She fingered the pearls at her throat.
• 3

  clear your throat

   to make a noise in your throat, especially before you speak, or in order to get someone's attention
• 4

  force/ram/shove something down somebody's throat

  informal to force someone to accept or listen to your ideas and opinions
• 5

  be at each other's throats

   if two people are at each other's throats, they are fighting or arguing
• 6

  cut your own throat

   to behave in a way that is certain to harm you, especially because you are proud or angry

• ➔ a lump in/to somebody's throat

  at lump1 (4)

  ➔ have a frog in your throat

  at frog (2)

  ➔ jump down somebody's throat

  atjump1 (13)

  ➔ stick in somebody's throat

  at stick1 (12)

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.