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What does drag on mean?

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  1. (idiomatic) to last too long
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She took a drag on her cigarette, blowing the smoke out through her nostrils.
He took a long drag on his cigarette and sighed, smoke blowing out of his mouth.
But the legal proceedings could drag on for years, and since desertion is not an extraditable offense, his clients are safe for some time.
As a substitute for sticking her tongue out at me, she took a long drag on the cigarette and blew a plume of smoke toward my face.
Twentieth-century fundamentalism has acted as a drag on secularizing tendencies.
Perhaps most obvious is the drag on the economy imposed by widespread and unrestrained graft and corruption.

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