put through the wringer

1. see put through, def. 3.

Example Sentences

Though it may be seen as the refreshing agent of change in politics, it has yet to be put through the wringer of close scrutiny.

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Jofra Archer sat proudly by the Lord's boundary edge as a crowd that had been put through the wringer ebbed away.

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Donnie Wahlberg shared in the documentary that in the beginning stages of New Kids on The Block the members were put through the wringer.

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To say Reilly's character has been put through the wringer would be an understatement.

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We're all suffering from pandemic fatigue after being put through the wringer over the past four years.

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• grill 
• interrogate 
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• query 
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