wrung out (like a dishcloth) adj.
(orig. US) exhausted.
![]() | Savage Night (1991) 114: I was still awfully weak and wrung out. | |
![]() | Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 126/2: wrung out like a dishcloth exhausted from heat or excessive activity. | |
![]() | Vice Cop 180: By the time we had fished haggling [...] we were all pretty tired, wrung out. | |
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. | |
![]() | Shore Leave 105: ‘You look all wrung out, son. You get some?’. |