wringer
英 ['rɪŋə]
美 ['rɪŋɚ]
英語の語源
- 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.