wear a hair shirt

wear a hair shirt
put on/wear/a hair shirt phrase
to behave in a way that shows you feel very sorry and guilty about something you have done wrong
Thesaurus: to say or show that you are sorrysynonym
Main entry: hair shirt

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  • hair shirt — noun count a shirt made of very rough cloth that some religious people wore in the past to punish themselves for things they had done wrong put on/wear a hair shirt to do something in order to show that you feel very sorry and guilty about… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • hair shirt — noun an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair; worn next to the skin as a penance • Hypernyms: ↑shirt * * * noun 1. : a shirt made of coarse rough animal hair worn next to the skin as a penance led him … to give himself to fasting, a… …   Useful english dictionary

  • hair shirt — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms hair shirt : singular hair shirt plural hair shirts a shirt made of very rough cloth that some religious people wore in the past to punish themselves for things that they had done wrong • put on/wear a hair… …   English dictionary

  • hair shirt — hair shirts 1) N COUNT A hair shirt is a shirt made of rough uncomfortable cloth which some religious people used to wear to punish themselves. He was sent barefoot wearing only a hair shirt into the wilderness as a penance. 2) N COUNT If you say …   English dictionary

  • put on a hair shirt — put on/wear/a hair shirt phrase to behave in a way that shows you feel very sorry and guilty about something you have done wrong Thesaurus: to say or show that you are sorrysynonym Main entry: hair shirt …   Useful english dictionary

  • Shirt of Nessus — Lichas bringing the garment of Nessus to Hercules, woodcut by Hans Sebald Beham, circa 1542 1548. The Shirt of Nessus, Tunic of Nessus, Nessus robe, or Nessus shirt in Greek mythology was the poisoned shirt that killed Heracles. It was once a… …   Wikipedia

  • wear — wear1 [ wer ] (past tense wore [ wɔr ] ; past participle worn [ wɔrn ] ) verb *** 1. ) transitive to have something on your body as clothing, decoration, or protection: He was wearing jeans and a T shirt. She wasn t wearing any makeup. I don t… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • wear — I UK [weə(r)] / US [wer] verb Word forms wear : present tense I/you/we/they wear he/she/it wears present participle wearing past tense wore UK [wɔː(r)] / US [wɔr] past participle worn UK [wɔː(r)n] / US [wɔrn] *** 1) a) [transitive] to have… …   English dictionary

  • wear*/*/*/ — [weə] (past tense wore [wɔː] ; past participle worn [wɔːn] ) verb I 1) [T] to have something on your body as clothing, decoration, or protection He was wearing jeans and a T shirt.[/ex] She wasn t wearing any make up.[/ex] He wears glasses… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • shirt — n. 1) to put on; take off a shirt 2) a body; dress; hair; polo; sport; wash and wear shirt 3) (misc.) to lose one s shirt ( to lose everything ) * * * [ʃɜːt] dress hair polo sport take off a shirt …   Combinatory dictionary

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