drag out

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Verb	1.	drag out - last unnecessarily long drag on last, endure - persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"
	2.	drag out - proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours" drag on, drag proceed, go - follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?"

Translations

tirar fuori

вытащить

w>drag out

vt sep

meeting, discussion etc → in die Länge ziehen

(= extract) eventually I had to drag it out of him → schließlich musste ich es ihm aus der Nase ziehen (inf)

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Having been there--the 1970s--I recall the knockdown drag outs about the use of double- or single-action modes for marksmanship like in the PPC course or in long-range shooting applications or for surgical work like hostages.