wringer

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

After all, they're older now, and the author has already put most of them through the wringer.

You've been through the wringer, and you look like hell!

"So that was what you ran us all through the wringer for, a while back."

I've been through the wringer of all the bad seasons.

"We have been through the wringer, the three of us."

Her emotions felt as though they'd been through a wringer.

The very fabric of time and space is about to be put through the wringer.

"The community has been through the wringer for a generation," he said.

A boy must be 10 to join the wringers, and every 10-year-old is expected to take the job.

Every appropriation we ask for gets put through a wringer.

"I put myself through the wringer a lot," he said.

Once he falls in love with her, she puts him through the wringer.

It don't make them feel like they've been put through a wringer.

The very fabric of reality was being put through the wringer in there.

One participant said the others put him "through the wringer" because of it.

Williams is a perfect example of a player who has been through the analysis wringer.

It seems that that's fine for them to say until their own balls are in the wringer.

Before they could get to the final, though, the Colonials put them through a wringer.

His fingers and hands felt as if they had been crushed in a clothes wringer.

He hadn't put his old bones through the wringer like this in some time.

I loathe them for putting me through the wringer while I'm getting there.