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- noun Plural form of
wringer .
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Examples
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Listening to the pissers, moaners, and hand wringers is not going to help you in the video game business.
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The perception the public have re: Dems and progressives as weak kneed hand-wringers is very telling – based on the lack of credible response from Dems – can you spell C-A-R-T-E-R??
Think Progress » Video: Pentagon Aide Admits Having “Drilled Through” Questions For Photo-Op 2005
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The perception the public have re: Dems and progressives as weak kneed hand-wringers is very telling – based on the lack of credible response from Dems – can you spell C-A-R-T-E-R??
Think Progress » Video: Pentagon Aide Admits Having “Drilled Through” Questions For Photo-Op 2005
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And I, the long time intimate of John Barleycorn, knew just what he promised me -- maggots of fancy, dreams of power, forgetfulness, anything and everything save whirling washers, revolving mangles, humming centrifugal wringers, and fancy starch and interminable processions of duck trousers moving in steam under my flying iron.
Chapter 24 2010
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I have no patience for hand wringers-there is no try-just do it
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And I, the long-time intimate of John Barleycorn, knew just what he promised me — maggots of fancy, dreams of power, forgetfulness, anything and everything save whirling washers, revolving mangles, humming centrifugal wringers, and fancy starch and interminable processions of duck trousers moving in steam under my flying iron.
THE BRAIN MERCHANT 2010
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Most of the Diversity Course was taken up by some hand-wringers from Headquarters who agonised over which was the more serious offence committed by a fictional member of staff.
If It Looks Crazy And It Sounds Crazy………….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Criminologists, Politicians, liberal theorists and hand-wringers need to wake up to the fact that some of us believe in prison sentencing because we actually have a professional knowledge of thugs and killers like Sonnex.
Sonnex and Farmer – only a matter of time. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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I guarantee that in this country the hand-wringers would be bleating about ‘executions’ – to the US public he got what was coming to him. on December 6, 2009 at 2: 00 pm Stonehead
‘Single Crewed’ In Ruralshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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One wonders wether the result will be governed by what the public hand wringers are demanding, or common sense.
London G20 Police outnumbered and attacked « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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