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put someone through the wringer idiom informal to ask someone difficult or unpleasant questions, often to find out if they are doing their job in a satisfactory way: (提出刁钻问题)使(某人)饱受折磨,使经受考验 Outside investigators will put the company's accounting practices through the wringer.外来的调查人员将会对这家公司的会计工作严加审查。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Questioning people & asking questions in general ask after someone ask questions of someone/somethingidiom be someone's for the askingidiom beat something out of someone bombard consultative Gallup poll inquisition outpoll pin someone down ply someone with something poll pry put someone through the millidiom put someone to somethingidiom rhetorical question roll shoot survey trick question
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