do penance

Alito carefully clipped out the words "she shall do penance for seven years" from the quotation, between "quick" and "as."

There are some things I regret — but to want me to do penance because I was a Republican?

You must admit your failure to appreciate this orthodoxy and do penance, or you will not survive in the job.

“Make him do penance! That’s the law!”

Keen to do penance for the debacle of the Clarence Thomas hearings, just two years before—the year before the Year of the Woman—when an all-male committee, chaired by Biden, failed to credit what Anita Hill had to say about George H. W. Bush’s Supreme Court nominee, he could hardly have been friendlier to Bill Clinton’s nominee, a much respected and widely admired sixty-year-old appellate judge.