Usually means: Expressing remorse or guilt excessively.
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  1. breast-beating: Merriam-Webster
  2. breast-beating: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breast-beating: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breast-beating, breast-beating: Collins English Dictionary
  5. breast-beating: Wordnik
  6. breast-beating: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. breast-beating: Dictionary.com
  8. breast-beating: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. breast-beating: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (breast-beating)

noun:  Synonym of chest-beating
noun:  The act of displaying remorse by or as if by striking one's breast.

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