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to have an albatross around one's neck

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  • reesetee commented on the word to have an albatross around one's neck

    From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in which the mariner who shoots an albatross is obliged to carry the bird hung around his neck.

    March 13, 2008