wringer

More tips Return to top Parents, you have been through the wringer this year.

He degraded her and he really put her through the wringer, but she survived that and stayed with him anyway.

I was angry that good people were run through the wringer of a corrupt, unforgiving system.

But then again, he would probably not want to go through the wringer a second time.

Put a man on a pedestal and suddenly it's hard for the press to drag him through the political wringer.

Before he had reached the age of five, he nearly lost a finger in trying to discover how his mother's clothes-wringer worked.

Don't wring the curtains with your hands simply squeeze them or put them gently through the wringer.

"I didn't get it on trial, like a wash-wringer," retorted the Colonel.

Judging from his looks, he might have been run through a wringer.

Know how to use soap and starch, how to soften hard water, and how to use a wringer or mangle.