drag through the mud

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

drag through the mud (third-person singular simple present drags through the mud, present participle dragging through the mud, simple past and past participle dragged through the mud)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To tarnish or spoil enough so that something or someone is no longer respectable.
   • 1999, Mona the Vampire, "Red Moon Monsters" (season 1, episode 6b):

     Red Moon Monster: Ever since that cheesy movie dragged our names through the mud, life hasn't been the same!

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: arrossegar pel fang
• Dutch: door het slijk halen
• Finnish: vetää lokaan, loata (fi)
• French: traîner dans la boue (fr)
• German: in den Dreck ziehen
• Italian: trascinare nel fango
• Polish: hańbić (pl) impf, zhańbić pf
• Portuguese: arrastar pela lama
• Russian: смеша́ть с гря́зью impf (smešátʹ s grjázʹju) (mix with mud)
• Spanish: dejar a la altura del betún