jump down one's throat

I like to have room to move my elbows without digging them into somebody else’s ribs, and I like to be able to open my mouth and shout and have no hearers, instead of having an army jump down one’s throat if one merely opens his lips.

We have the same kind of slang in the expression "to jump down one's throat," when we mean "to complain violently of some one's behaviour."