| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Heart in his Mouth | Literature | 1: His heart was in his mouth. That choky feeling in the throat which arises from fear, conscious guilt, shyness, etc. 2: "The young lover tried to look at his ease,... but his heart was in his mouth," - Miss Thackeray; Mrs. Dymond, p. 156. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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