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Idioms and Phrases

A tedious experience, a bore, as in After several thousand times, signing your autograph can be a drag . This seemingly modern term was army slang during the Civil War. The allusion probably is to drag as something that impedes progress. [ Colloquial ; mid-1800s]
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Example Sentences

Slowly nosing his way up the ridge, came a full-grown skunk, his tail a-drag, his head swinging close to the ground.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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