"Put through the mangle" nghĩa là gì?

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"Put someone through the mangle" -> nghĩa là khiến ai phải chịu gian khổ, khó khăn hoặc thử thách, hình phạt.

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“Frank did these little squiggles (lượn sóng) and it’s essentially just that,” Diller cheerfully recounts in Sydney Pollack’s Gehry biopic. The bulky pile of white glass is apparently meant to look like the sails of ships coming into harbour (bến cảng), rather than a data centre shed put through the mangle.

Viewers were left emotionally overwhelmed (choáng ngợp) by last night’s episode of Call The Midwife, with one saying on social media that the BBC show "certainly knows how to put you through the mangle with the emotion."

His movement (chuyển động) was somewhat ginger early on but he eased through the gears as the match progressed and by the end of the contest, Kuznetsov had been put through the mangle.

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