Word.ws English Dictionary

lay in one's throat

lay in one's throat is the simple past of lie in one's throat.

Meaning of lie in one's throat

Verb

lie 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)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) To 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...

Questions about lay in one's throat

What is lay in one's throat the simple past of?
Lay in one's throat is the simple past of lie in one's throat.

Words near lay in one's throat in the dictionary

  1. lay in
  2. lay in ambush
  3. lay in ashes
  4. lay in honor
  5. lay in lavender
  6. lay in one's throat
  7. lay in repose
  8. lay in state
  9. lay in the bed one had made
  10. lay in the way
  11. lay in wait

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lay in one's throat (page history and authors); lie in one's throat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lay in one's throat.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lay_in_one%27s_throat. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.