Meaning of horsehair shirt | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of hairshirt.

Examples

“I always thought of it as the horsehair shirt of politics: necessary but uncomfortable.”

“Becket took to wearing a horsehair shirt, constantly irritating the skin beneath the fine clothes he still affected, and followed a strict horarium with midnight prayers, rising at dawn to wash the feet of beggars and distribute food to the hungry.”

“Strap on your horsehair shirt later. I'm the better transverser, and I'm just nastier.”

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