释义 |
Idiom go down the wrong way if food or drink goes down the wrong way, it goes down the wrong tube in your throat and makes you cough or stop breathing for a short time.I'm all right, it's just a piece of chicken that went down the wrong way.
go down the wrong wayOf food or drink, to be swallowed in such a way that one briefly chokes and/or starts coughing. Oh, she'll be all right, I think she just took a drink and it went down the wrong way. go down the wrong way (of food) enter the windpipe instead of the gullet. |