Nov 21, 2021 at 02:39 PM
Washers didn’t spin the water out. You put the clothes one piece at a time between two rollers and cranked a handle to squeeze the water out then put them on a clothes line to dry. Thus the expression put him though the wringer. If you’ve seen old I love Lucy shows you might catch a glimpse of the wringers. Her washer was either in the kitchen or out on the porch.
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