albatross around one's neck
phase. a heavy burden
The phrase refers to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem -- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner -- in which a sailor who shoots a friendly albatross is forced to wear its carcass around his neck as punishment.
“My old car is an albatross around my neck.”
"The company that he founded decades ago is now an albatross around his neck, making losses of several hundreds of thousands a year."
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