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"wringer" is a machine or device used to squeeze or twist something tightly. It is often used to remove excess water from clothes or other items by pressing or rolling them through the
wringer. The word can also be used figuratively to describe a difficult or challenging situation that puts someone under a lot of pressure or stress.
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Here Jesus has come through the emotional
wringer of the other six words to a full and confident resolution, and he steps quietly through the gates of death.
Lonely woman Ida Lupino is put through the suspense drama
wringer by bent handyman Ryan.
Josie Rourke is on to direct the latest iteration of the film, which has been caught in the development
wringer for more than a decade.
I'm not much of a hand
wringer when it comes to NFL team owners.
According to a recent scientific paper, our shoelaces are put through the physical
wringer with every single step we take,...
While «Wild,» starring Reese Witherspoon, put us through the emotional and physical
wringer as it bored into one woman's troubled and aching psyche, this film is exactly what it says it is — a walk in the woods.
My Amish neighbors still use
wringer washers and hang everything outside, even in the dead of winter.
Its characters are put through the
emotional wringer, made to endure bereavement and betrayal alongside their snatched moments of happiness»
And with Stiller comes the actor's willingness to endure the emotional and
physical wringer for the good of a grotesque Farrelly gag or two.
Recent years have seen other law - abiding citizens put through a legal
wringer after finding themselves in similar circumstances.
«Instead, the Woodstock Town Board should be supporting developers like us, who are spending substantial amounts of time and effort to follow the rules through the regulatory
wringer at great expense while Airbnb gets a free ride.»
Katja is put through the
ultimate wringer throughout the film, constantly veering between utter hopelessness and defiant anger; it would be easy to fall into the trap of portraying a woman suffering such unspeakable horrors by resorting to hysterics.
But as anyone who has been through the
naming wringer knows, that's easier said than done.
The nations of Eastern Europe are now being put through an
economic wringer because, evidently, they thought Smith's dicta about markets, profits, land ownership, and wage incentives were smoke and mirrors.
These moms and dads have been through the
potty wringer and come out the other side dry.
instead, know that each child IS different and each child will put you through a
different wringer but each mother is already equipped with what their child needs, caring for them, loving them, teaching them gently, working and strategizing with them, helping them gently, and just supporting them through every stage of growth, from birth till they are ready to fly from your nest.
It comes with a bucket that has a built - in, hands -
free wringer that owners say is a snap to use.
This idea is a holdover from when people had to hand wash or use an
electric wringer washer to wash the diapers.
Miliband took the ingredients of the last year and put them through the
Labour wringer.
These strategies may not always work to change people's minds, but now that the nation has just been put through a political fact -
check wringer, they may help reduce unnecessary divisiveness.
After a shocking announcement, Tankboy puts his crew through the combat
training wringer thanks to a Drill Sergeant hell bent on results, all in preparation for a truly explosive mission.
There's the 1982 edition, for starters, a masterful collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper that sends a suburban family through the haunted -
house wringer.
, a far more chaotic study of a young woman put through the
psychological wringer by the male creative ego.
It says something about the project that she'd be willing to go through the
Marvel wringer for it.
Not that it matters, though, as the film's primary concern is putting its viewers through an action -
packed wringer.
And that's just the first five minutes of this nastily effective comedy - horror, which takes genre clichés and runs them through a candy - coated
ADHD wringer, leaving you bloodied and smiling at the end.
But once the two arrive at the massive suburban estate of Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford), Chris is put through the casually
racist wringer.
As the deliverer of the script's zingers and the victim of the
womanly wringer she is put through, Charlize Theron commands the screen and awes us on so many levels.
But it's not nearly as complicated as the hand -
wringers want you to believe.
While it can be more time - consuming to manage a large portfolio, most people are better off aiming for at least this number to avoid getting put through the
volatility wringer.
Opportunities for multiplayer were far rarer than they are now — you could go one - on - one over a phone line, or put yourself through the
hellish wringer of setting up an IPX network for some four - way fun — but I was a monster there, too.
Prey dropped last week before we had a chance to write up May's roundup, but that means we've already been able to put it through our
review wringer.
For the hand -
wringers who imagine this would trash the canon, I'll note that cramming in 50 more paintings by women would still keep their presence below 16 percent.
We didn't ever buy or build a
clothes wringer, as we lived in a dry sunny region, but that could be an effective method of speeding up the drying process, especially in more humid locations.
Lawyers at startups need to recognize that a workable answer today is often preferable to the perfect answer tomorrow; hand -
wringers need not apply.
Once you've narrowed down the possible names to a viable list of 5 - 10 candidates, run them through a
final wringer.
From this phase, the employees of the companies have to
undergo wringer by the department of accounts of companies.
Turtle Beach's new i30 and i60 headsets are aimed in large part at Apple fans and have clearly gone through Apple's
design wringer.
There's no cost to the Seller to put the Buyer through the court
process wringer, especially if it's via Small Claims Court, and there's no incentive or disincentive for the Seller to sign the mutual release under any circumstance.
There's an old washboard that was my Grandma's and an antique
washtub wringer that was my Grandma's as well.