Sentences with phrase «albatross around one's neck»

She has been a financial albatross around his neck for years.

It has been a real albatross around his neck in recent weeks as he's searched for the last one, and it's no surprise to see his manager wanting everyone to move on and leave the Englishman to focus on his game.

A home can be a potential asset or quickly spiral into a financial albatross around your neck.

Whether you're looking for an affordable apartment, applying for a credit card, or trying to secure a personal loan of any amount big or small, it's that ever present albatross around your neck painting a sad portrait of your financial history.

Most of them just want to get rid of the real estate albatross around their necks as soon as possible so that they can pay off any leftover debts.

What Quinn had effectively delivered, primary voters knew, was a third term for Bloomberg, and that was the real albatross around her neck.

It acts as an albatross around the neck of the economy and hinders growth.

For years, I wore stepmother like an albatross around my neck, allowing its weight to pull me under the dark waters of depression.

instead they upped his wages and he's now just an albatross around the neck of the club... Should be offered out at whatever the market will pay in the summer... Might just have to go on a free as not many clubs outside of Middle East or china would pay this guy 7 m a year for his average skill set

The title alone is enough of an albatross around its neck (all indications are that it was hurriedly tacked onto a spec script), but an out - of - the - blue, utterly gripping trailer that announced the pic's existence a mere two months prior to release ends up its greatest foe.

Oddly enough, the film's greatest strength — which is its exceptionally strong cast — is also an albatross around its neck.

Taut, spare, riveting and with a twist that has become in many ways an albatross around the neck of its writer / director, The Sixth Sense rests squarely on the shoulders of Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment and the imagination of the viewer.

Schumer plays an underpaid, overworked, overweight New Yorker who carries bad luck like an albatross around her neck.

The federal standards forced upon us by an ever intrusive department of education have resulted in no shortage of controversy and has become an albatross around the necks of many a governor who agreed to adopt the system.

Print legacy is an albatross around the neck of all forms of digital reading.

When you're trying to re-locate, a hard - to - sell home can quickly become an albatross around your neck.

After exhausting Dante's «Divine Comedy» as a source of inspiration for his first three epic blawg reviews, Samuels discovered that the task of finding a theme had become an albatross around his neck — which lead Samuels, logically, to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's «Rime of the Ancient Mariner» as a theme for Blawg Review # 189.

The prime minister stated last month that he wants to «wage war against the excessive health and safety culture that has become an albatross around the neck of British businesses».

However, its massive size and short battery life are an albatross around the neck of an otherwise great laptop.

When I found a service that could write my resume for me, my resume became less an albatross around my neck and more a realizable dream.

When your husband's addiction is made known to you, the secret becomes the albatross around your neck.

It will become an albatross around your neck if you buy it.