/ · 1894 Brewer’s · B · Bone in my Throat
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I have a bone in my throat. I cannot talk; I cannot answer your question.
I have a bone in my leg. An excuse given to children for not moving from one’s seat Similarly, “I have a bone in my arm,” and must be excused using it for the present.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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