put through the mangle meaning
EN- Verb
- IDI Alternative form of put through the wringer.
- A big beast of the men's field was put through the mangle then dumped out of Wimbledon as Rafael Nadal fell at around 10.06pm to Lukas Rosol, a Czech debutant who will never forget this Thursday evening in south-west London.
- IDI Alternative form of put through the wringer.
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Grammatically, this idiom "put through the mangle" is a verb.