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Why is the bird in the idiom an albatross instead of another bird?

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∙ 11y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

It is a line from a poem. A sailor killed an albatross, which was a bird sailors considered a lucky omen, so the other sailors made him wear it around his neck as punishment. This came to mean anything you've done that hinders your future.

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