a drag
A tedious experience, a bore, as in After several thousand times, signing your autograph can be a drag. This seemingly modern term was army slang during the Civil War. The allusion probably is to drag as something that impedes progress. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]
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How to use a drag in a sentence
Slowly nosing his way up the ridge, came a full-grown skunk, his tail a-drag, his head swinging close to the ground.
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