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idioman albatross (around sb's neck)(also an albatross round sb's neck BrE)a problem that prevents you from succeeding:Your business can become an albatross around your neck if you don't have the skills and temperament to run it.There are too many albatrosses hanging round the UN's neck for it to get things done in this troubled region of Africa.The new tax may prove to be an albatross for the government.Note An albatross is a very large white seabird that sailors (=people who work on ships) think it is very unlucky to kill. In Coleridge's poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a sailor kills an albatross and has to wear it around his neck as a punishment.
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