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drag

If you drag something, you pull it, usually with difficulty. She heard the noise of a chair being dragged to the window. If you drag your feet, you move or do something slowly. Six months later, when nothing had happened, they complained that the city was still dragging its feet. If you drag somebody somewhere, you take them there but they don't want to go. Dad sent me to drag you back home. If you drag yourself somewhere, you go there with difficulty, often because you're tired or sick. I dragged myself out of bed and made a cup of coffee. If you drag something on a computer screen, you move it from one place to another using a pointer. If something drags you down, it makes you feel unhappy.

drag

If something is a drag, it's not fun and you don't want to do it. Christmas was a real drag this year, since I was living alone. If someone is a drag, they don't enjoy fun activities or they stop you from having fun. He's such a drag to be with, studying all the time. Christmas was a real drag this year, since I was living alone. If you take a drag from a cigarette, you close your mouth and inhale through it. I took the final drag from my final cigarette, and put it out, for good.

drag

pull, as against a resistance He dragged the big suitcase behind him These worries were dragging at him (= haul) draw slowly or heavily haul stones haul nets to lag or linger behind But in so many other areas we still are dragging move slowly and as if with great effort the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid (= draw) suck in or take (air) draw a deep breath draw on a cigarette (= sweep, sweep up) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action They were swept up by the events don't drag me into this business persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting He dragged me away from the television set use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen (= drag on) proceed for an extended period of time The speech dragged on for two hours the act of dragging (pulling with force) the drag up the hill exhausted him clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man) he went to the party dressed in drag the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag something tedious and boring peeling potatoes is a drag something that slows or delays progress taxation is a drag on the economy too many laws are a drag on the use of new land (= puff) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) he took a puff on his pipe he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly (= scuff) walk without lifting the feet (= dredge) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

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drag · verb

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Simple sentences

I had to drag him out of bed.
Don't you drag me into this.
Sorry that I've reduced you to someone to drag my luggage around!
Don't drag me into this.
Don't be such a drag.
The drag show was spectacular.
They intend to drag the river for the missing person.

Movie subtitles

Drag him out!
And it would have been most unfair to drag Scarlett into something distasteful if she were simply back in San Francisco.
You don't want me to dress in drag, do you?
So, you're totally fine with Jimmy dressing in drag?
I could hardly drag him away.
Why did you drag him to the pub?
You're not going to drag me down to that graveyard.
Drag that net clear across the room.
Guy, I don't wanna drag you into this.
Was it strategy sending those gorillas to drag me away from the Justice of the Peace?
If you're not out of bed by then I'll drag you out myself.
Don't drag it out.
You can't drag me into this!
I'll not let you drag down our family name any longer.
Middle management positions are such a drag, aren't they?
Do I have to drag you down the stairs?
No need to drag women everywhere.
I'll drag him down to hell with me!
I'll drag him down to hell with drums and trumpets!
You saw them drag her into the car.
Did you drag me out to Africa to go after ivory or a woman?
Here, fasten this to your pommel. Ride down there and drag this bush behind it, understand?
You think I'd drag that music lover to court to show people the man you preferred?
Well, since I was crazy enough to drag you out here will you please leave that future in my hands for the next few weeks?
I suppose it was strategy sending gorillas to drag me from that justice of the peace.
If you're not out of that bed, I'm coming and drag you out.
But if it loses. then you take a good drag. blow the smoke toward your bet. sending it to the other side of the line. and your half bet becomes a full bet!
Knock down, drag out.
Nothing could drag us away.
If you don't want to walk, I'll drag you.
You might as well come without being stubborn. because I'm going to drag you in.
I'm going to drag you in here.
Drag him out by the heels.

News and current affairs

Bottom trawlers drag heavy nets over the ocean bottom, destroying magnificent, unexplored, and endangered marine species in the process.
They don't need to drag Britain and others kicking and screaming in their wake because the others are not compelled to join them.
Of course, the drag will be much smaller, as tax increases and spending cuts will be much milder.
The US will then face not only the direct effects of a fiscal drag, but also its indirect effect on private spending.
But the same pattern followed the 1973-4 and 1979-80 oil crises, when prices dropped from their highest peaks, but stayed quite high for years, representing a drag on the stock market, the housing market, and the world economy.
But in the current crisis, the academic evidence has overwhelmingly shown that fiscal austerity does what textbook economics says it will do: the more severe the austerity, the greater the drag on growth.
The drag on growth is more likely to come from the eventual need for the government to raise taxes, as well as from lower investment spending.
Moreover, there is an additional source of drag.
Third, where risks are regional or global rather than local, many national governments, especially in poorer and smaller countries, may drag their heels in the hope that larger and richer countries will bear the costs of addressing them.
Until now, the recessionary fiscal drag has been concentrated in the eurozone periphery and the UK.
But comparisons to the post-WWII Nuremberg tribunal have worn thin: as the proceedings drag on, observers wonder why it has taken so long to establish criminal liability.
It must also contend with significant fiscal drag, ongoing deleveraging in the household sector (amid weak job creation, stagnant incomes, and persistent downward pressure on real estate and financial wealth), rising inequality, and political gridlock.
The construction boom is starting to stall, just as net exports have become a drag on growth, owing to weakening US and especially eurozone demand.
The rise in the amount of time spent commuting is a drag on both national productivity and the quality of life in modern cities.
But on Planet Worst, forcing terrified, uneducated women to remain at home is more socially acceptable than facing the fact that this means choosing to drag down incomes for everyone.
And slow recovery in the US will drag down recovery in other advanced countries, reducing their employment as well.
While state and local government cutbacks in spending and employment are ending as the recovery boosts their tax revenues, the fiscal drag at the federal level is strengthening.
He could have said the same thing about the fiscal drag that would be created by Obama's budget proposal.
The first reason is likely to create a long-term drag on growth: households need to deleverage and save more, which will constrain consumption for years.
So, with the bond market appearing ripe for a dramatic correction, many are wondering whether a crash could drag down markets for other long-term assets, such as housing and equities.
Moreover, slow growth in the advanced economies need not exert a drag on developing countries' performance.
How worried should we be about an additional drag on the global economy?
In India, where government is more often considered a drag on commerce than a catalyst of growth, the decisions that move local markets are now more likely to come from bureaucrats in Delhi than from innovators in Mumbai.
Environmental problems are another powerful drag on China's current standard of living.
Likewise, domestic policy stalemates and political uncertainty acted as a significant drag on the US recovery from the Great Recession.
But, with the conflict and its impact expected to drag on for years, agencies must also plan for the longer term.

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