英语词汇have one-s heart in one-s throat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	have one-s heart in one-s throat
词源	have one’s heart in one’s throat. To be very anxious, tense, frightened. Dating back four centuries, the expression was first have one’s heart in one’s mouth, and it is sometimes still heard that way. My heart was a lump in my throat is also used today.
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