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a hair shirt
a hair shirt
if someone wears a hair shirt, they choose to make their life unpleasant by not having or experiencing anything that gives them pleasure I don't think you have to put on a hair shirt in order to be a socialist.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Quentin | | kawn-TEN (French), KWEN-tin (English) | French, English |
Heshel | | - | Yiddish |
Bryant | | BRIE-ənt | English |
Bernt | | - | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |
Chiranjeevi | | - | Indian, Hindi, Telugu |
Maike | | MIE-kə (German) | Frisian, German |