beat one's breast

beat one's breast

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   Synonym: beat one's chest

• “beat your breast chest” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “beat one s breast” in the Collins English Dictionary
• “to beat one s breast” in the Collins English Dictionary
• “beat your breast” (US) / “beat your breast” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “beat one's breast” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.