I took out my knife, my Ka-Bar, and knocked his teeth out, but they fell into his throat.
The pressure against my throat seemed completely constricting.
With senility's fingers at his throat, it was clear that no more movies were going to be made.
He died in July after being grabbed around the throat by a cop and wrestled to ground where the breath flew out of him.
The red mark around her throat suggested she had been strangled with “something thin.”
A ghost of color was going up her throat, staining her cheeks.
"He had a gun shoved into the hollow of his throat," said Andy.
Charles had said as he fingered his throat, which was patched with black and blue.
There was a snarl; Jeff had Joe by the throat, and Joe was reaching for his gun.
The fingers thrust at his throat—he seemed to be tearing his own flesh.
Old English þrote (implied in þrotbolla "the Adam's apple, larynx," literally "throat boll"), related to þrutian "to swell," from Proto-Germanic *thrut- (cf. Old High German drozza, German Drossel, Old Saxon strota, Middle Dutch strote, Dutch strot "throat"), perhaps from PIE *trud- (cf. Old English þrutian "to swell," Old Norse þrutna "to swell").
The notion is of "the swollen part" of the neck. Italian strozza "throat," strozzare "to strangle" are Germanic loan-words. College slang for "competitive student" is 1970s, from cutthroat.
throat (thrōt)
n.
The portion of the digestive tract that lies between the rear of the mouth and the esophagus and includes the fauces and the pharynx.
The anterior portion of the neck.
noun
A very intense and competitive student, esp a premedical student: throat, a person who is over-competitive about grades
Related Terms
cut one's own throat, jump down someone's throat
[1970s+ College students; fr cutthroat]
