wringer
- a person or thing that wrings.
- an apparatus or machine for squeezing liquid out of anything wet, as two rollers through which an article of wet clothing may be squeezed.
- a painful, difficult, or tiring experience; ordeal (usually preceded by through the): His child's illness really put him through the wringer.
Origin of wringer
Related Words for wringer
query, investigation, inquiry, questioning, inquisition, inquest, poll, catechism, interrogation, examination, interrogatory, inquiring, wringerExamples from the Web for wringer
Contemporary Examples of wringer
He degraded her and he really put her through the wringer, but she survived that and stayed with him anyway.
Adam Driver on Role-Play Sex with Lena Dunham on ‘Girls’ and Adam’s Stormy Relationship with HannahMarlow Stern
March 10, 2014
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.
Historical Examples of wringer
Also, your garments are as wrinkled as though you'd been put through a wringer.
Frank Roscoe's SecretAllen Chapman
Get a strong barrel and a pounder—such as used by washerwomen; also a wringer.
Hints on DairyingT. D. Curtis
Never leave a wringer with the pressure on the rollers when not in use.
Mechanical Devices in the HomeEdith Louise Allen
Thus, the clothes are wrung as dry as in a wringer of the roller type.
Mechanical Devices in the HomeEdith Louise Allen
But close—say, that man's so close he puts every copper through the wringer.
Betty Gordon at Bramble FarmAlice B. Emerson
wringer
- another name for mangle 2 (def. 1)
Word Origin and History for wringer
"device for squeezing water from clothes," 1799, agent noun from wring. Figurative phrase to put (something) through the wringer first recorded 1942, American English.
Idioms and Phrases with wringer
wringer
see under put through (the wringer).