3325英語網 單詞
wringer的意思
wringer
英 ['r???]
美 ['r???]
- n. 勒索者；絞擰機；絞扭的人；令人心力交困的事
英文詞源
- wringer (n.)
- "device for squeezing water from clothes," 1799, agent noun from wring (v.). (Earlier it meant "extortioner," c. 1300.) Figurative phrase to put (someone) through the wringer first recorded 1942, American English.