It's interesting but now and then I have read or deployed the phrase "I threw up in my mouth a little," finding it comical, especially the closing diminution of the event. I'm very particular about the perfect structure of the phrase and have criticized modifying transgressors. I actually made someone throw up in his mouth a little, once, an Oregon boy who worked in an herbal seeds shop. I think I was smelly. However, these are but words. I can't watch a beautiful young man throw up in his mouth, even for sport, without having my feelings hurt. This is all on me of course, the hypocracy and (doubtless) unfair projection of the paradigm upon the beautiful young Asian male. I just thought I'd unload on Red's English-reading fans.