bring a lump to/have a lump in your throat
C2 to give you/to have a tight feeling in your throat because you want to cry:
It was quite a moving speech - it almost brought a lump to my throat.
When we said goodbye I had a lump in my throat.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Sadness and regret
- a heavy heart idiom
- be/weigh on your conscience idiom
- bitter
- broken-hearted
- cheerless
- gloom
- gloomy
- guilt complex
- guilt trip
- guilt-ridden
- guilt trip
- heartache
- lament
- melancholy
- mourn
- rue the day idiom
- rueful
- sackcloth
- sad
- sadly
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