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Chinese mourners wear sackcloth

Of Sackcloth and Ashes: How idioms originate

  • Post author:Iza Grek
  • Post published:January 18, 2019

This week I discovered a ‘delightful’ idiom in the novel Sophie’s Bakery for the Broken Hearted by New York Times Best Selling Author, Lolly Winston – sackcloth and ashes. I’ve…

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