Instead, he is one of 167 players going through the wringer.

They went through the wringer again and were carried to the clothesline.

"I go through the wringer when I'm playing a part and I like going back in time."

Colored clothing went through the wringer directly into the rinse water."

We went through the wringer together, and that shared experience really made us genuine buddies."

Jim Kirk could do without going through the wringer agam over the death of a friend.

I could have walked out of the club at any time last night, but stayed and went through the wringer again, hoping to find a memory.

"Either shut up or accept my personal invitation to come to Ardvor and try to go through the wringer.

The plot: A nice Midwestern couple goes through the wringer in Manhattan (lost luggage, muggings, etc).

Eisenstein, a German name to begin with, goes through the wringer and comes back out as "Ejzenstejn", e.g.)

Anyone who gets through that gets flown out to New York City, all expenses paid including up to three nights in a luxury hotel, and goes through the wringer in person.

Boyce thanked his "mum and dad, brilliant wife and gorgeous children" and paid tribute to his art school, saying: "When education is going through the wringer, it is important to acknowledge the value of teachers."

The Mets had seemingly gone through the wringer just last year, suffering a great deal of self-inflicted off-field distractions and enough irrelevant sideshows to have cured even the most obvious courters of celebrity controversy.

Even Daniel admits her advice is sensible and fair, although he recently "went through the wringer" for having an unauthorized party when his parents were away, which neighbors said was attended by the majority of teen-agers in the greater metropolitan area.

Earlier this season, Graves became the 164th player in N.H.L. history to play 1,000 games; he scored 10 goals last season, his lowest total in 14 seasons in the N.H.L. Off the ice, Graves went through the wringer.

MOST of the troubled buildings are now three or four years into their recovery, and Mr. Saft of the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums believes they have come out stronger than if they had not gone through the wringer.

"And so many people came up to me recently, people who had gone through the wringer, just the wringer, half-dead people who came back to life, that I thought maybe saying a little bit about my own experience, and the parts of 'Traffic' that were borne out of my own experience, might be interesting to people."