Question

Albatross around Your Neck a very difficult burden that you can't get rid of or a reminder of something you did that was wrong

Accepted Answer

Everywhere I go, my mother makes me take my little bratty sister. She's an albatross around my neck. In 1798 the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his most famous poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." In the poem a young sailor shoots a large seabird called an albatross. In those days that was considered very unlucky. Sure enough, a lot of bad things happen to the ship, and the crew blames the young sailor. They hang the dead bird around his neck.

Idiom	Albatross around Your Neck
Example	Everywhere I go, my mother makes me take my little bratty sister. She's an albatross around my neck.
Meaning	a very difficult burden that you can't get rid of or a reminder of something you did that was wrong
Origin	In 1798 the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his most famous poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." In the poem a young sailor shoots a large seabird called an albatross. In those days that was considered very unlucky. Sure enough, a lot of bad things happen to the ship, and the crew blames the young sailor. They hang the dead bird around his neck.

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