2go through the wringerAmerican EnglishAmE informalUPSET to have a lot of problems and upsettingexperiences 历经千辛万苦
She’s really been through the wringer since her husband died.
丈夫去世之后,她历尽艰辛。
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go through the wringer• His ex-wife really put Barry through the wringer.• Before being reunited with his 14-year-old wife and baby, Pedro Sotelo went through the wringerThursday.
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wringer• Washing clothes, pulling items through a wringer and hanging them outside took a full day, and ironing took another.• John McLeish, himself a forcefulcharacter, felt as if he had been put through a wringer.• Rachel suddenly felt she'd been through an emotionalwringer.• With the wringer and mop they make up a mopping system.• She kept the woodenwringer in her corporate office, near her desk.