beating their breasts

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• beat your breast — beat (your) breast to publicly pretend that you feel sad or guilty. Managers are beating their breasts about the loss of 50 jobs, but staff suspect more redundancies are on the way …   New idioms dictionary

• beat breast — beat (your) breast to publicly pretend that you feel sad or guilty. Managers are beating their breasts about the loss of 50 jobs, but staff suspect more redundancies are on the way …   New idioms dictionary

• beat your breast — to make it obvious by your actions that you are very upset or sorry about something Everybody s beating their breasts but nobody actually does anything …   English dictionary

• beat your breast — phrase to make it obvious by your actions that you are very upset or sorry about something Everybody’s beating their breasts but nobody actually does anything. Thesaurus: to say or show that you are sorrysynonym Main entry: beat * * * beat your… …   Useful english dictionary

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