albatross
Example Sentences
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“Other people look at it as an albatross around their neck.”
“It is an albatross ’round my neck!” he protested, but he also did as he was told.
From Literature
Comcast is unloading the channels because it believes the mature outlets face a bleak future due to pay TV cord-cutting and are an albatross weighing down its stock price.
From Los Angeles Times
Comcast is spinning off the channels because it believes the mature outlets face a bleak future due to pay TV cord-cutting and are an albatross weighing down its stock price.
From Los Angeles Times
Before long, that pact had become an albatross for the Broncos, who benched him in his second season and then released him.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.