hair shirt

See also: hairshirt and hair-shirt

English

Noun

hair shirt (plural hair shirts)

  1. Alternative form of hairshirt.
    • 2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      But what their admirers call grit and critics deem shamelessness can overshadow another essential element of the Clinton school: a willingness to put on the hair shirt of humility to regain power.
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