At the same time, you want them almost to be the sackcloth and ashes type.

What's next for the Bush administration - sackcloth and ashes?

"Black people don't have to wear sackcloth and ashes to show their concern."

He attended on us, as I may say, in sackcloth and ashes.

Those ancients in their sackcloth and ashes had little known how right they would turn out to be.

Sackcloth and ashes not only don't help, they're simply just not called for here.

"Perhaps you should have offered sackcloth and ashes," suggested Ashton.

And you talk about sackcloth and ashes in the Bible.

"What are we fatties supposed to wear, sackcloth and ashes?"

"If the new order is to be one of sackcloth and ashes, we think some women will wear theirs with a difference!

Do you want her in sackcloth and ashes?

Mudge had arrived with scarcely more than sackcloth and ashes.

It is nearly unanimous: this is no time for sackcloth and ashes.

"It doesn't follow that because one's a socialist one ought to dress in sackcloth and ashes."

I hope it's not all sackcloth and ashes.

He attended Canterbury in sackcloth and ashes as a sign of penance.

"Maybe a climbdown is called for and a certain amount of sackcloth and ashes," he wrote.

"Let us place order for ample supply of sackcloth and ashes," he remarked gloomily.

Hell, she could wear sackcloth and ashes and still stir his lust.

There again, Nikki could have made sackcloth and ashes look like Dior.

Am I to put on sackcloth and ashes?'

Perhaps it was his sackcloth and ashes, for every time he looked at it, he suffered.

As he was taking his last view of the country, he wrote: "Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes.

"This is not sackcloth and ashes time.

Sackcloth and ashes as a fashion statement.