- beat your 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.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
beat your breast
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beat your breast — phrase to make it obvious by your actions that you are very upset or sorry about something Everybody’s beating their breasts but nobody actually does anything. Thesaurus: to say or show that you are sorrysynonym Main entry: beat * * * beat your… … Useful english dictionary
beat your breast — to make it obvious by your actions that you are very upset or sorry about something Everybody s beating their breasts but nobody actually does anything … English dictionary
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 … New idioms dictionary
breast-beating — beat (your) breast to publicly pretend that you feel sad or guilty. No amount of breast beating will bring back those who died in the crash … New idioms dictionary
beat — beat1 W2S2 [bi:t] v past tense beat past participle beaten [ˈbi:tn] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(competition/election)¦ 2¦(hit)¦ 3¦(hit against)¦ 4¦(do better)¦ 5¦(be better)¦ 6¦(food)¦ 7¦(control/deal with)¦ … Dictionary of contemporary English
beat — I UK [biːt] / US [bɪt] verb Word forms beat : present tense I/you/we/they beat he/she/it beats present participle beating past tense beat past participle beaten UK [ˈbiːt(ə)n] / US [ˈbɪt(ə)n] *** 1) [transitive] to defeat someone in a game,… … English dictionary
breast — 1 noun 1 PART OF A WOMAN S BODY (C) one of the two round raised parts of a woman s body that produce milk when she has a baby: a woman with a baby at the breast | breast cancer 2 CHEST (C) the part of your body between your neck and your stomach … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
breast — breast1 [brest] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(woman s body)¦ 2¦(chest)¦ 3¦(bird)¦ 4¦(meat)¦ 5¦(clothes)¦ 6 make a clean breast of it/things 7¦(emotions)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [: Old English; Origin: breost] 1.) … Dictionary of contemporary English
beat — 1 verb /bi:t/ past tense beat past participle beaten / bi:tn/ 1 DEFEAT (T) a) to get the most points, votes etc in a game, race, or competition: Brazil were beaten in the final 2 1. | I could always beat my brother at chess. | beat sb hollow… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
breast — noun 1 part of a woman s body ADJECTIVE ▪ ample, big, enormous, full, heavy, large ▪ little, small ▪ … Collocations dictionary
