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
Helle (2)	-	Greek Mythology
Yuliya	YOO-lee-yah (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian
Blodeuyn	-	Welsh
Wilfred	WIL-frəd	English
Hossein	-	Persian
Akiko	ah-kee-ko	Japanese