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
Chalice	CHAL-is	English (Rare)
Romaine	[.rəu'mein]
Izzy	IZ-ee	English
Vali	-	Romanian
Middleton	['midltən]
Varuna	-	Hinduism