drag out

He tends to drag out negotiations, so expect that several big names will remain on the market not only into 2025 but perhaps into spring training.

It's part of the system of creating change, which is to speak truths to power that are meant to be dragged out of court.

It came as Volodymyr Zelensky outlined his "victory plan" in a speech to the EU Council - in which he said Ukraine had intelligence that "China is still actively helping Russia drag out this war".

I’m going to go ahead and drag out that hairy old cliché, it was all downhill from there, because, God help us, it was.

An inquest has heard harrowing accounts from witnesses who were dragged out to sea by a rip current which led to the drowning of two young people.