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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ilta	EEL-tah	Finnish
Hanga	HAWN-gaw	Hungarian
Harper	HAHR-pər	English
Fabiana	fah-BYAH-nah (Italian)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Ancient Roman
Pru	PROO	English
Maciej	MAH-chay	Polish