mangle

be put through the mangle

To be subjected to some ordeal, difficulty, trial, or punishment; to undergo an unpleasant experience. Between my mother's bout with cancer, Jenny losing her job, and the bank threatening to foreclose on the house, our family has really been put through the mangle this year. Jake wasn't a great fit for the military, and he was constantly being put through the mangle for disobedience.
See also: mangle, put, through

put (one) through the mangle

To subject one to some ordeal, difficulty, trial, or punishment; to force one to undergo an unpleasant experience. My mother's recent bout with cancer has really put us through the mangle this year. I don't think Jake is a great fit for the military. His superiors are constantly putting him through the mangle for his disobedience.
See also: mangle, put, through
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be put through the hoop
  • be put through the mangle
  • be put through the wringer
  • go through the wringer
  • go/put somebody through the wringer
  • be a fate worse than death
  • come to a bad end
  • come to a bad/sticky end
  • get a taste of (one's) own medicine
  • be in for something
References in periodicals archive
Se realizo un analisis de la tasa de degradacion (R) y del coeficiente de degradacion (k) de la hoja de mangle por temporadas de la region: nortes (noviembre a febrero), secas (marzo a junio) y lluvias (julio a octubre).
Degradacion de hojarasca y aporte de nutrientes del manglar en la Laguna Mecoacan, Golfo de Mexico
I viewed the mangle as the intertwined material and discursive elements involved in the production of particular knowledge and practice--For Grace, this meant the mangle of her materials from a past classroom life, our discourse related to those materials, her emotional reaction expressed physically, and the ways in which I recorded and interpreted her responses.
Mangling Expertise: Using Post-Coding Analysis to Complexify Teacher Learning
Em Antonina, a densidade de Rhizophora mangle na subarea Al e 2,5 vezes maior em relacao a subarea A3 (Tabela 3).
Structure of adult trees and regeneration component of two mangrove forests of Parana/Estrutura do componente de regeneracao natural e arboreo de dois manguezais no estado do Parana
Rhizophores in Rhizophora mangle L: an alternative interpretation of so-called "aerial roots".
First record of Acalles sablensis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Rhizophora mangle (Malpighiales: Rhizophoraceae) along the Gulf of Mexico
Los bosques de mangles en esta area se desarrollan fundamentalmente sobre turba fibrosa, siguiendole en orden de frecuencia los sustratos arenosos, presentes fundamentalmente en el cayo.
Gestion y monitoreo del ecosistema de manglar en la costa sur de Camaguey: Cayo Caguama, P.N. Jardines de la Reina y Refugio de Fauna Macurije-Santa Maria
racemosa (100% relative density (number of trunks) and dominance (basal area)), R mangle (75% of dominance and 97% relative density) and A.
Decomposition of mangrove leaves in the estuary of Paraiba do Sul River Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/Descomposicion de hojas de mangle en el estuario del Rio Paraiba do Sul Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
This reviewer finds it very interesting that Pickering's theory of the "mangle" could be applied in each case study regardless of the scenario or the author's field of study.
Pickering, Andrew, and Keith Guzik, eds.: The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming
Rather than putting mangles and irons behind glass cases, on Monday Ormesby Hall let visitors put them to good use.
It's good old fashioned hard work
Lightning can mangle an office building's computers, machinery and electronic systems within seconds.
Lightning will strike as often as it likes