stick in someone's gullet

English

Verb

stick in someone's gullet (third-person singular simple present sticks in someone's gullet, present participle sticking in someone's gullet, simple past and past participle stuck in someone's gullet)

1. Alternative form of stick in someone's craw
   • 1986, Jim Prior, A Balance of Power:

     What began to stick in the gullet was the growing belief during our years in opposition (1974– 79) that the only thing that really mattered was the control of the money supply.

   • 1996, The Middle Way - Volumes 71-72, page 255:

     If there are things in it that stick in your gullet why ignore them?

   • 2013, Rosanne Hawke, The Keeper, page 3:

     Some days I wake up and — would you know it? l've done exactly what she's wanted after all but it doesn't seem to stick in my gullet like at school.

   • 2014, Adam Tooze, The Deluge:

     It was a stance that he knew would stick in the gullet of many in his audience in January 1917.