wringer

He finally was cleared, but only after his reputation was put through a wringer.

Donnie Wahlberg shared in the documentary that in the beginning stages of New Kids on The Block the members were put through the wringer.

To say Reilly's character has been put through the wringer would be an understatement.

“We went through a lot of wringers, but we succeeded,” Chaudhuri said.

That means to the world to somebody who’s been thrown through the wringer and discarded and kicked to the curb.