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hair shirt

noun as in personal punishment

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And that gave birth to the worst Wolverine, which also gave birth to the idea that the suit is a hair shirt.

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“You don’t have to be vegan or take cold showers or wear a hair shirt, but just consuming less things is really helpful for the environment,” she said.

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This is a coming-of-age story in which the transition from adolescence to adulthood is akin to swapping one hair shirt for another.

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It’s not long before she’s wearing a hair shirt and sleeping on the floor with rats.

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“Christ suffered so much that wearing a hair shirt is surely not painful. In my case I already have calluses, 40 years old, you can imagine,” he told local station Exitosa.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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