Mocking bird?
Hi, I am now reading “Don’t kill a mocking bird.” I encountered a line which says that his food does’t stick going down.
I don’t get the literal meaning of this line. What does “stick” mean in this sentence?
I believe this is a scene where one of the ladies having a tea party was being sarcastic about the fact that the person who she’s talking to is hypocritical because she is eating food served by the host but talking bad things about him at the same time.
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com/stick+in+(one%27s)+throat 1. If something sticks in your throat , it annoys you. What really sticks in my throat is the way that she just assumes she'll be in charge of the project.
- com/stick+in+(one%27s)+throat 1.
- If something sticks in your throat , it annoys you.
- What really sticks in my throat is the way that she just assumes she'll be in charge of the project.
- It sticks in my throat that such injustice still exists in society.
- If it does not stick in his throat, it does not bother him at all.
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It may be a reference to the idiom:
"stick in one's throat" https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stick+in+(one%27s)+throat
1. If something sticks in your throat, it annoys you.
What really sticks in my throat is the way that she just assumes she'll be in
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