Madam C. J. Walker

The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.

American Activist

Anne Rice

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

American Novelist

Antonin Scalia

Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the states? My court? Ha - we're feds!

American Judge

Oscar De La Hoya

I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.

American Athlete

Lleyton Hewitt

I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

Australian Athlete

Thomas Griffith

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

American Editor

S. J. Perelman

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

American Writer

John Mayer

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

American Musician

Zig Ziglar

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

American Author

S. Sreesanth

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

Indian Athlete

Often used with wet items that retain water.

Typically Literal

Involves actual twisting motion with hands.

Physical Action

Implies removing as much liquid as possible.

Complete Removal

Used figuratively for extracting information or truth.

Metaphorical Use

Suggests difficulty and persistence in getting an answer.

Effortful Extracting

Can imply stress or pressure in the extraction process.

Emotional Connotation

Highlights using strength to twist something.

Forceful Twisting

Can describe emotional distress, often in metaphors.

Intense Emotion

Can be used in contexts unrelated to physically twisting.

Not Always Literal

 Everybody wanted one of these electric washing machines. On the left-hand side, this was the soapy water. And there's a rotor there -- that this motor is spinning. And it would clean your clothes. This is the clean rinse-water. So you'd take the clothes out of here, put them in here, and then you'd run the clothes through this electric wringer. And this was a big deal.

Jeff Bezos: The...

 wringing your hands -- there's always something specific and important to be done. There are also tons of collaborators. Everywhere you go, hundreds of thousands of people ready to work with you to achieve your epic mission. That's not something we have in real life that easily, this sense that at our fingertips are tons of collaborators.

Gaming can make a better...

 Then, she wrings the birds’ necks and cuts them open to examine their entrails for divine messages. Camma is a druid. This means she conducts religious rites, but she also serves as a judge, healer, and scholar,

A day in the life of a...

 about healing those even the women, in their best dresses, with beads and sequins sewn on the bodices, even in lipstick and mascara, their hair aflow, could only stand wringing their hands, begging for peace,

C.K. Williams: Poetry...

 spend the afternoon my philosophy is keep your technology simple things won't go wrong it's not much they can go wrong with this washing machine right here step 2 put it through the old wringer

The Nature Purist PIPE Life...

 or worry or anxiety, and it might cause you to, maybe, wring your hands or take a deep breath or even cry. Right? Same physical sensation, same churning stomach, different experience.

You aren't at the mercy...

 Well, I'm not here today to lament about the situation, or wring my hands. I am here to tell you that change is in the air. Africa today is not the Africa waiting for aid solutions,

Eleni Gabre-Madhin:...

 Ah, romantic love - beautiful and intoxicating, heartbreaking and soul-crushing, often all at the same time. Why do we choose to put ourselves through its emotional wringer?

Why do we love? A...

 my grandmother, in the birthing bed, in labor, hoists herself up on one elbow and wrings that chicken's neck, right? And that is how my mother came into this world.

The political progress...

 like literature with all the water wrung out of it. Three - poems often feature intense feelings, from Rumi's spiritual poetry to Pablo Neruda's "Ode to an Onion."