un chat dans la gorge - French expression

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avoir un chat dans la gorge - a frog in your throat - Mot du Jour

avoir un chat dans la gorge - to have a cat in the throat. avoir un chat dans la gorge means ‘to have a frog in one’s throat’. The plain speech version of avoir un chat dans la gorge is être enroué, être enrouée.

  • « Je dois m’éclaircir la voix car j’ai un chat dans la gorge. »
    • “I need to clear my throat because I have a frog in my throat.”
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