Translations for „hair shirt“ in the English » German Dictionary

hair ˈshirt N REL

hair shirt

härenes Gewand form

hair shirt fig

Büßerhemd nt

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

keep your shirt [or hair] [or pants] on

immer mit der Ruhe inf

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Nevertheless, he still put on an extra-prickly hair shirt.

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Lighten the load by casting off the hair shirt.

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Hermit -- gloomy and you get to wear a hair shirt.

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It's not a hair shirt, either.

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He stripped to a hair shirt and allegedly walked barefoot through the snow on the way to a mountaintop castle where the pope was waiting.

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Talk about donning the hair shirt.

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Yet it's hard to believe our failings are so egregious -- and our sense of guilt so pervasive -- that we'd willingly don these newfangled hair shirts every day in penance.

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Gone are the days when your average green activist wore open-toed sandals and a hair shirt.

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Enjoy your hair shirt and over arching sense of superiority!

health.spectator.co.uk

A kind of plainchant and hair shirt psychedelia.

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