TO FRET ONE’S GIZZARD, verb. phr. (common).—To worry oneself. See FRET.
TO STICK IN ONE’S GIZZARD, verb phr. (common).—To remain as something unpleasant, distasteful or offensive; to be hard of digestion; to be disagreeable or unpalatable.
c. 1830. P. EGAN, Finish to Tom and Jerry, p. 241. It had always STUCK IN HIS GIZZARD … to think as how he had been werry cruelly used.
TO GRUMBLE IN THE GIZZARD, verb. phr. (common).—To be secretly displeased. Hence, GRUMBLE-GIZZARD (q.v.).
