beat one's breast

He beat his breast and put some question to them.

Why don't you stop beating your breast and get started?

I guess we just didn't beat our breasts about it.

Those saying the prayer beat their breast at the italicized words.

I am," he said, beating his breast, "but not of my own will.

Things might have gone faster if I'd remembered that sooner, but there was no sense in beating my breast over it.

I could place myself on the throne while still beating my breast over how I'd been wronged.

That only made him beat his breast harder and shriek louder.

Decades later, he was still beating his breast about the adolescent prank.

People were beating their breasts, prostrating themselves on the hard stones.