drag

  • 81drag by — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms drag by : present tense I/you/we/they drag by he/she/it drags by present participle dragging by past tense dragged by past participle dragged by if time drags by, it seems to pass very slowly …

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  • 82drag in — verb force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action They were swept up by the events don t drag me into this business • Syn: ↑embroil, ↑tangle, ↑sweep, ↑sweep up, ↑drag • Derivatio …

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  • 83drag in — {v.} To insist on bringing (another subject) into a discussion; begin talking about (something different.) * /No matter what we talk about, Jim drags in politics./ * /Whenever anyone mentions travel, Grace has to drag in the trip to Mexico she… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 84drag in — {v.} To insist on bringing (another subject) into a discussion; begin talking about (something different.) * /No matter what we talk about, Jim drags in politics./ * /Whenever anyone mentions travel, Grace has to drag in the trip to Mexico she… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 85drag — 1. The lower or cast side of a denture flask. 2. Any tendency for one moving thing to pull something else along with it. solvent d. the influence exerted by a flow of solvent through a membrane on the simultaneous movement of a solute through the …

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  • 86DRAG — Doctrine Review and Approval Group (Governmental » Military) To inhale or puff a cigarette... Give me a drag cigarette, said Sam (Miscellaneous » Casual Expressions) …

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  • 87drag on — phr verb Drag on is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑meeting, ↑war …

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  • 88drag on — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. go on slowly, keep going, persist, wear on; see continue 1 , drag 2 , endure 1 …

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  • 89drag — • klunk, svälj, drag, munfull, slurk …

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  • 90drag — [14] Drag has two possible sources, each with equally plausible claims: Old English dragan, source of modern English draw, or the related Old Norse draga. Both go back to a common Germanic source. Of the modern colloquial applications of the word …

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