1,027,579,540 visitors served.
1,027,579,540 visitors served. |
|
 Dictionary/ thesaurus |  Medical dictionary |  Legal dictionary |  Financial dictionary |  Acronyms |  Idioms |  Encyclopedia |  Wikipedia encyclopedia | ? |
breast |
Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson | 0.06 sec. |
|
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. See also: beat 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. make a clean breast of it to tell the truth about something, especially something bad or illegal that you have done, so that you do not have to feel guilty any more. After months of lying about the money, I decided to make a clean breast of it and tell the truth. See also: clean |
|
 |
| Free Tools: |
For surfers:
Browser extension |
Word of the Day |
Help
For webmasters: Free content | Linking | Lookup box | Double-click lookup | Partner with us |
|
|---|
Disclaimer |
Privacy policy |
Feedback | Copyright © 2008 Farlex, Inc.
Printer friendly
Cite / link
Email
Feedback
breasted
