Ben Cohen, The Wall Street Journal, 23 Nov. This year, he said, VCU's coaches asked him to "up the ante.” "We teach them to be comfortable being uncomfortable.” McGuire put VCU through the ringer for three days last year. "The killer instinct - I basically sharpen that," McGuire said. 2000Įvery table read, I’m like, “Ohhhh, I’m exhausted.” They put Liza through the ringer. The mistaken application of ringer or ringing where it would be more appropriate to use wringer or wringing is commonly found in edited prose (although not commonly enough that such use is accepted as a variant).īut, hey, once in a while it’s refreshing to see what is apparently a grass-roots movement work so spontaneously and successfully, without endless hand-ringing and deliberation. When describing the act of squeezing (either clothing or a person), the correct word is wringer likewise with the act of hand-wringing (“an overwrought expression of concern or guilt”). “Give him the headquarters quiz,” says I. Go up there and put him through the wringer.” “Do what?” says the Bishop. ”He’s been trained so fine in the silence business that he hardly dares open his mouth when he eats. The Winnipeg Tribune (Winnipeg, Can.), įlorig will continue on duty in charge of the Strip district pending the police board hearing Friday when Dorsey proposed to put him through the wringer for “making false reports” about him. “I’d put him through a wringer to get all the information I could get out of him,” he said. One of my first telephone interviews was with Mayor Queen, who chuckled when I asked the question. This idiom came about in the early 20th century, and in initial use the experience it referred to was often that of questioning.
#The ringer series
The idiom through the wringer refers to having been through a series of very difficult or unpleasant experiences. The word also has a figurative meaning (“something that causes pain, hardship, or exertion”), which has eclipsed the laundering sense.
Wringer has a fairly literal meaning (“one that wrings, such as a machine or device for pressing out liquid or moisture”), which is much less in use nowadays than it once was before the ubiquity of electric clothes dryers, wringers were considerably more common. Make sure the machine isn't what's wringing your hands.
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