sackcloth and ashes

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sackcloth and ashes (slightly formal)

if you wear sackcloth and ashes, you show by your behaviour that you are very sorry for something you did wrong. I've already apologized. How long must I wear sackcloth and ashes before you'll forgive me?

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And a hermit's got to sleep on the hardest place he can find, and put sackcloth and ashes on his head, and stand out in the rain, and --" Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context Some of his low places he found lifted to ideals, some of his ideas had sunk to the valleys, and lay there with the sackcloth and ashes of pumice stone and sulphur on their ruined heads. Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context This Mary Dyer had entered the mint- master's dwelling, clothed in sackcloth and ashes, and seated herself in our great chair with a sort of dignity and state. Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context More results

References in classic literature

And a hermit's got to sleep on the hardest place he can find, and put sackcloth and ashes on his head, and stand out in the rain, and --"

Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context

Some of his low places he found lifted to ideals, some of his ideas had sunk to the valleys, and lay there with the sackcloth and ashes of pumice stone and sulphur on their ruined heads.

Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context

This Mary Dyer had entered the mint- master's dwelling, clothed in sackcloth and ashes, and seated herself in our great chair with a sort of dignity and state.

Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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