It tells them to keep their money in their purses and not to buy wringers, dictating machines and motorcycles.
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There must be an overridingly worthy objective to justify the change and it must justify putting us all through the emotionalwringerof this legislation.
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I want to deal with only one aspect of the matter, and that relates to the industry making iron hand-wringers.
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We have heard of the drive to concentrate all these economies, from hand wringers and such like, into the export drive in motor cars.
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The poor, hard-working working-class woman will have to pay more for her hand-operatedwringer.
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I am joining in the plea for the exemption of the handwringer.
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He has accused me of being an unreconstructed wet, and has threatened to put me through thewringerto dry me out a bit.
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But clearly the increase in costs will make the price of hand wringers sold abroad much dearer.
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Thousands of householders are unable to afford electrical appliances to do their laundry, and they find the handwringeran essential instrument.
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Many of the long-term unemployed are being put through awringer, and that is wholly unacceptable.
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We could not tolerate a situation in which the constable is put through thewringerof the complaints board while the special constable is not.
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The entire economy will be put through thewringer.
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Perhaps he does not understand what awringeris.
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Every aspect of farming—livestock, vegetables or arable—is going through thewringer.
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Therefore, he goes through thewringertwice.
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