throat-clearing love

throat-clearing

Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word throat-clearing.

Examples

  • I'm betting that gamification, in spite of its throat-clearing name, is going to be big in the commercial world -- and in schools.

    The 'Gamification' Of Education Elizabeth Corcoran 2010

  • I'm betting that gamification, in spite of its throat-clearing name, is going to be big in the commercial world -- and in schools.

    The 'Gamification' Of Education Elizabeth Corcoran 2010

  • Most of us -- including me -- do way too much throat-clearing at the beginning of our stories.

    Delia Lloyd: 5 Ways to Improve Your Fiction Delia Lloyd 2011

  • That voice, that one-time awe-inspiring natural resource now sounds polluted and in perpetual need of a throat-clearing.

    The revenge of the voice 2009

  • "We are not going to give a grade to this thing until we have a chance to talk to Palestinian Authority leaders about the implications," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, along with the usual throat-clearing about U.S. red lines.

    Obama's Palestine Test 2012

  • Most of us -- including me -- do way too much throat-clearing at the beginning of our stories.

    Delia Lloyd: 5 Ways to Improve Your Fiction Delia Lloyd 2011

  • After a lot of throat-clearing, he finally asked if there was any way I could stop my mother from calling their station because it was taking time away from real emergencies.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • For although "The Zoo Story" retains a shattering appeal in its undermining of affluent New York's urbane complacency, the preliminary act - set in Peter's Upper East Side apartment - comes across as a sedate exercise in throat-clearing.

    'At Home at the Zoo' expands Albee's classic one-act play 2011

  • They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.

    The Fine Art of Where to Start Darin Strauss 2012

  • Only a second round of throat-clearing, obviously more forced than the last, kept him from losing himself once again in the woman in his arms.

    Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.