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When I asked "How are you doing?", she said that in the picture, which I don't know what it means. So it'd be great if someone rephrase it so that I understand it. Thanks.
When I asked "How are you doing?", she said that in the picture, which I don't know what it means. So it'd be great if someone rephrase it so that I understand it. Thanks.
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- English (US)
Things were bad and getting worse.
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They spelled it wrong...it's "wringer," not "ringer."
To be put through the wringer means to go through something unpleasant or draining. It's a phrase that comes from literally putting something through a wringer, which is a thing people used to use to press water out of clothes after they were washed.
This character had probably been through a lot of stuff before you asked "How are you doing?" and she seems like she's exhausted from talking about the situation that she's in. She expects this conversation to be unpleasant.
I guess another way to say this could be "Not this again..." or "Haven't I been through enough?" although they don't have the exact same feeling
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