dragging out
Making it longer
Dragging out means extending something beyond its natural or necessary length.
You drag out a meeting by talking too long, drag out a goodbye by lingering at the door, or drag out a story with unnecessary details.
The phrase suggests tedium or reluctance: Stop dragging out the suspense and just tell me.
To drag something out of someone is to extract it with difficulty: I had to drag the truth out of him.
- prolongExtend in duration
- lingerStay beyond necessity
- lengthenIncrease in extent
- draw outExtract or extend
- delayEnforced waiting period
stalling · playing for time · running out the clock · extend · filibuster · postponing · tedious · tiresome · deferring · monotonous · laborious · long haul · schlepping · exhausting · protract · interminable · pull · elongate
- stallingstall, stalling, delay, hesitate, procrastinate
dragging outexpediting
Making progress faster
speeding up · rushing · hurrying · hastening · accelerating
dragging outexpediting
Making progress faster
pushing through · fast-forwarding · truncating · abbreviating · condensing
dragging outstreamlining
Making more aerodynamic or efficient
getting to the point · cutting to the chase · dispatching · making short work of
drag, dragging, drags, dragged, dragger, outs, outing, outward, outwardly