| 词汇 | sackcloth and ashes |
| 词源 | sackcloth and ashes. People used to show grief and sorrow by wearing sackcloth, a coarse material used for making sacks, and throwing ashes on their heads. From this custom came the expression sackcloth and ashes, meaning sorrow for something one has done or failed to do (e.g., “He came to me in sackcloth and ashes saying he’d found the book he had insisted I’d taken”). The phrase is an ancient one that is found in the Bible (Matt. 11:21). |
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