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
Guarin	-	Medieval French
Marlies	-	German, Dutch
Huitzilopochtli	-	Aztec and Toltec Mythology
Lakshman	-	Indian, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi
Matheus	-	Portuguese (Brazilian)
Stavroula	-	Greek