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Meanings of hairshirt in inglês
Sinônimos
Examples for "sackcloth"
Examples for "sackcloth"
1
The proud Lord of Hers was, in spirit, in sackcloth and ashes.
2
None clothed in sackcloth might enter the gate that is called Beautiful.
3
Trixy told her to-night she'd discarded the sackcloth and kept the ashes.
4
The team wanted drama and impact but she preferred sackcloth and ashes.
5
It was an old man clad in sackcloth, who resembled a hermit.
1
The breastplate and the cilice of bristles she took and dashed with feeble ferocity on the floor.
2
His essential awfulness is denoted not by any cilice mortifying the flesh, but by his grotesque comb-over-baldness.
3
For upwards of a month, then, the mild torture of the goat's-hair cilice did the office I required of it.
4
Ignoring the slash of pain from his cilice, Silas retrieved his gun and began the long trek up the grassy slope.
5
And now I must doff this bristly cilice; they would prick thy tender skin, perhaps make it bleed, as they have me, I see.
Usage of hairshirt in inglês
1
It has been a hairshirt week for Leinster, a time to pause.
2
Or they could don the hairshirt and aim to sharply slow spending.
3
If I was a Flagellant now, I would don hairshirt and up flail.
4
She cannot even give us the pleasure of the hairshirt.
5
Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne's hairshirt Brexit budget has not appeared for one thing.
6
It was hairshirt stuff - was it the shape of things to come next week?
7
It was a time of deep recession in Ireland and a tough hairshirt budget was in the offing.
8
We are in the hairshirt era.
9
But the hairshirt makes a body itch with the kind of prickling irritation that can drive you mad.
10
These were hairshirt' years, yet the Government of the day tackled the need for housing in the 1920s with imagination.
11
Again, both leaders were well-prepared but Haughey scored points in attacking the cuts being proposed in a hairshirt Fine Gael budget.
12
Take the cape and burn it, too, or sew it into a hairshirt and wear it under your fancy ball gowns.
13
But in what might be called an episode of hairshirt politics, Labor is attacking the Prime Minister for being able to afford expensive suits.
14
The gold florin, with the Florentine lily on one side and John the Baptist wearing a hairshirt on the other, became the coin of Europe.
15
There have also been a fair share of austere hairshirt budgets that happened during the recessions of the 1970s, 1980s and the 2010s.
16
In these days of hairshirts and tightened belts who can afford frivolous extras like research or originality?
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