单词	hair shirt
释义	hair shirt noun 1 : a shirt made of rough animal hair worn next to the skin as a penance 2 : one that irritates like a hair shirt Synonyms aggravation aggro [British] annoyance bother botheration bugbear exasperation frustration hassle headache inconvenience irk irritant nuisance peeve pest rub ruffle thorn trial vexation See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences the constant need to cut costs was a hair shirt, but one that the theater company had to live with Recent Examples on the Web This is a coming-of-age story in which the transition from adolescence to adulthood is akin to swapping one hair shirt for another. Jake Cline, Washington Post, 27 May 2022 Aiden needs neither hair shirt nor whip to self-flagellate, and Simone writes of depression with a visceral ache. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021 To toughen it up, Ford resorted to that longtime crossover hair shirt, the roof rack. Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 6 July 2020 Asking billions of people to don an unwashed hair shirt wouldn’t work; the solution would have to be rapid technological innovation. Jon Gertner, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020 Even a hair shirt worn voluntarily is uncomfortable. Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2020 Highlights from the list of 175 individual objects include a hair shirt and finger bone believed to have belonged to St. Nicholas -- better known as Santa Claus -- and relics from Christ's birthplace. Rory Sullivan, CNN, 18 Dec. 2019 Might fashion be the next business to suffer as consumers put on their environmental hair shirts? Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019 On the evidence in these pages, a hair shirt will not be in Sunstein’s future. Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 20 June 2019 See More Word History First Known Use 14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 hair shirt noun as in headache something that is a source of irritation the constant need to cut costs was a hair shirt, but one that the theater company had to live with Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance headache thorn nuisance worry frustration rub problem ruffle irritant inconvenience trial annoyance pest exasperation irk bother aggro vexation bugbear aggravation insult peeve menace burden predicament curse discomfort anxiety botheration hassle plague cross upset affront pandora's box offender plight offence trouble fleabite offense pinprick millstone sore albatross pet peeve tribulation annoyer disturber harasser affliction mischief hang-up Antonyms & Near Antonyms joy pleasure delight
随便看	the other evening the other morning the other night the other side of the coin the other way around the other way round the other woman the other/opposite/flip side of the coin the others the Our Father the outback the outdoors the outside the outside world the Oval Office the overall scheme of things the ozarks the Pacific Northwest the Pacific Rim the Palace the palouse the pampas the pants off the papacy the paranormal

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