through the wringer

through the wringer

Through some ordeal, difficulty, trial, or punishment; through 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 wringer this year. Jake wasn't a great fit for the military, and he was constantly being put through the wringer for disobedience.
See also: through, wringer
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
  • mangle
  • 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
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