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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
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.
These underused parcels and buildings aren’t just a budget burden; they’re also a drag on their neighborhoods, stopping the transformation of buildings and land into higher and better uses, like housing, or even just renovated, modern office space.
We know from recent history that Musk’s intense focus on non-Tesla projects can be a drag on Tesla’s stock.
Zeeshan Ali has been a drag artist for 10 years and has taken his show all over India.
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