wringer
- 英式英标[\'rɪŋɚ]
- 美式音标[\'rɪŋə]
英文词源
- 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.
