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What does drag on mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) to last too long
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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.
The vampire took another drag on his cigarette and looked to Tanya, who stood shaking in a corner.
Sophie rolled her eyes and took a last drag on her durry before flicking it into the toilet bowl and flushing it.
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.
But the legal proceedings could drag on for years, and since desertion is not an extraditable offense, his clients are safe for some time.

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