hair shirt
See also: hairshirt
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]hair shirt (plural hair shirts)
- 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.