He stated: "They were literally choking because the joke was so unexpected.

"You're married to" - he tried to say the name and literally choked on it - "him."

He screeches at the unoffending stick, claws it, battles with it, and literally chokes himself in his rage.

He is best known for his distinctive laugh and for his tendency to literally choke on his laughter.

Enemies of the king, however, receive no such amenity as a clean floor, and often they literally choke on the dust.

"In the book, there's this part where she's literally choking on blood that she's been drinking ... out of her mind."

He literally choked to death as we watched.

I was literally choking, clawing at his fingers till the blood roared in my ears.

So, while Etta prepared her bath, Cecilia had tried to eat her toast, literally choking on it.

Emotions, deep, conflicting, unspeakably fond and grateful, literally choked his speech.