(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Your ~ is the back of your mouth and the top part of the tubes that go down into your stomach and your lungs.
She had a sore ~...
As she stared at him she felt her ~ go dry.
N-COUNT: oft poss N
2.
Your ~ is the front part of your neck.
His striped tie was loosened at his ~.
N-COUNT: oft poss N
3.
If you clear your ~, you cough once in order to make it easier to speak or to attract people’s attention.
Cross cleared his ~ and spoke in low, polite tones.
PHRASE: V inflects
4.
If you ram something down someone’s ~ or force it down their ~, you keep mentioning a situation or idea in order to make them accept it or believe it.
I’ve always been close to my dad but he’s never rammed his career down my ~...
PHRASE: V inflects
5.
If two people or groups are at each other’s ~s, they are quarrelling or fighting violently with each other.
The idea that Billy and I are at each other’s ~s couldn’t be further from the truth.
PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v
6.
If something sticks in your ~, you find it unacceptable.
What sticks in my ~ is that I wasn’t able to win the trophy...
PHRASE: V inflects
7.
a lump in your ~: see lump