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albatross around/round neck

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albatross around/round your neck (literary)

something that you have done or are connected with that keeps causing you problems and stops you from being successful. The company that he founded in 1983 is now an albatross around his neck, making losses of several hundreds of thousands a year.

See also: around, neck, round

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