Origin of Phrases - A
Albatross around your neck
Meaning: Burdened by stigma or shame from a past deed.
Example: Your choice, you can put that job firing behind you or wear it like an albatross around your neck.
Origin: From Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner". An albatross, a symbol of good luck, landed on the ship and was killed by the captain while the ship was becalmed. The killing was thought to be the reason for a prolonged becalming. The Captain was forced to wear the albatross as a reminder of the wrong he had done.
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