Wringer

At his final exam, Bob was really put through the wringer; the test covered everything that was in the course.

I feel sorry for his mom; he really puts her through the wringer.

He made me go through the wringer.

I've been through the wringer.

They always put us through the wringer, don't they?

We wringers of hands don't really want a step to take! We want to continue our hand-wringing and feel hostile toward anyone who acts as if there's something simple to do about any problem.

Reynders brushed a messy lock of orange hair out of her eyes for the dozenth time. Her body didn't change in the ADDC, actively resisted and eventually reverted any changes being consciously made to it, but in her constant state of nervous paranoia she was doing a bang-up job of making herself look like she'd been through several sequential wringers. "I know there's a better way to describe this, but it's very hard to focus. Bear with it. I hate being like this a lot more than you hate hearing it, trust me."