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
Honorine	-	French
Reilly	RIE-lee	English (Modern)
Jolene	jo-LEEN	English
Darius	də-RIE-əs (English), DER-ee-əs (English), DAR-ee-əs (English)	English, Lithuanian, Romanian, Biblical, Biblical Latin
MetodĚJ	-	Czech
Edie	EE-dee	English