lie in one's throat verb1 •(no longer used) 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. — 1603 formslay in one's throat · lain in one's throat · lying in one's throat · lies in one's throat
