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a drag
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]Example Sentences
Two years later, when the Dodgers honored for its charitable work a drag troupe that dresses in nuns’ habits, Gomez held what he described as a Mass of “healing” that amounted to an attempted exorcism on behalf of the whole city.
“I love it when a plan comes together,” she posted on X, alongside a photo of herself taking a drag.
But as long as some players find the torpedo bat to suit their swing, companies like B45 will continue to make them — hopeful the sport has found at least one innovative breakthrough to help hitters counter-balance the sport’s significant recent advancements in pitching development, with increases in pitching velocity and movement on breaking balls putting a drag on offense in the modern game.
A few blocks south, in the candlelit dark of the Seven Arts Club, queer people of all stripes, conservative novelty seekers from other areas of the city, and additional alternative crowds of the Jazz Age gathered to debate nudism, communism and to watch the club’s master of ceremonies and known homosexual of the time, Edward Clasby, preside over a drag review while wearing full drag.
There’s a reason so many of them are despondent, especially after the Dodgers’ moral flexibility was exposed two years ago in their dealings with a drag group which they invited, disinvited and reinvited to be honored in a Pride night pregame ceremony.
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