throat-clearing

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A forcible, sometimes muted, expulsion of air from one's lungs, sometimes to clear mucus, sometimes to attract attention to something; less vigorous than a cough.
    — Colds, with their subsequent sneezing, coughing, hemming, nose-blowing, and throat-clearing, begin to be the order of the day, with the ushering in of cold and damp November days.
  2. A performative or formal preamble before a statement. idiomatic
    — This is a comic poem—an exercise in throat-clearing, or a cranking up of the speech organs: […]
动词 v.
  1. Alternative form of clearing one's throat alt-of,alternative

词形变化

present participle and gerund of clearing one's throat canonical
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