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Idioms & Phrases
hair shirt
A self-imposed punishment or penance, as in I apologized a dozen times
do you want me to wear a hair shirt forever? This term, mentioned from the 13th century on, alludes to wearing a coarse, scratchy hair shirt, the practice of religious ascetics. Its figurative use dates from the mid-1800s.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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