put through the mangle
Synonym 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
verb
To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel
To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
noun
A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.
verb
To wring laundry.