wear sackcloth and ashes (English, verb)
expansion: wear sackcloth and ashes (third-person singular simple present wears sackcloth and ashes, present participle wearing sackcloth and ashes, simple past wore sackcloth and ashes, past participle worn sackcloth and ashes)
Senses:
glosses: To publicly express regret for something done wrong.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: wears sackcloth and ashes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wearing sackcloth and ashes
tags: participle
present
form: wore sackcloth and ashes
tags: past
form: worn sackcloth and ashes
tags: participle
past