Thank the gods for the comments because my mind went to a dirty place.....

You should have used the word rooster instead of cock...

@Katrus
yes, they should have
But it would not have been as funny.

There is also a danish sentence for it: "Jeg har en tudse i halsen"

Is it also used as slang for speaking Danish?

@Xordic No it's "Speaking with a potato in your mouth"

God damn it Sweden

Animals in throats is apearently a thing... In Dutch you have a frog in your throat if you're coughing all the time or your throat is otherwise audibly unhappy

@Wortel we say it in Germany too.

@CherryCat yay!

@Wortel we say "Ich habe einen Frosch in meinem Hals" (I have a frog in my throat ) how do you say it in Dutch?

@CherryCat Ik heb een kikker in mijn keel.
It's a 100% literal translation.

@Wortel it has many similarities.

@CherryCat yep

@Wortel
"Frog in the throat" is something I've heard in Canada, and from my England-born grandmother.

I imagine it's a pretty common, near-universal saying, since a person with a sore throat sounds pretty similar to a croaking frog. That's not something that's dependent on any regional cultural reference... well... maybe if you lived in a country with no frogs.

@Hinoron true!

@Wortel When you have a sore throat, in French, it is described as "avoir un chat dans la gorge", which literally translates to "to have a cat in the throat".

@Rayati ah nice

I've never ever heard of it.. But my girlfriend apparently has. It was more common when she was a kid so I guess it's an old phrase

Can anyone from Sweden confirm? I find some Google hits, but not many...

@Karen Well if someone loses control of their voice you can say that. Like if it suddenly gets a lot darker or lighter. And the bird cock, just to clarify.

@Tegelpannan In spanish, we use just the word cock (~=rooster) when referring to a high-pitched off-tone made in the middle of speech or, more often, when singing.

@Karen Born and raised Swede here, and yes, I confirm that having "en tupp i halsen" is a rather common saying when loosing ones voice, or when ones voice breaks mid sentence/word. Just to clear one detail up though, it's cock as in rooster...

@Karen Just asked my Swedish partner. He explained that it is true, however cock in this translation means rooster So it's "I have a cock (rooster) in my throat."