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  • n  an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair; worn next to the skin as a penance
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  • Cowen dons the hair shirt
    Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowen has certainly donned the hair shirt when it comes to Ireland’s economy with the kind of emergency budget that leaves very few Irish citizens untouched by tax increases of one kind or another.
    June 28, 2013 - Irish Central

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