Drag Higher Meaning Continue Longer Usual Speech Hours

Meaning: to continue for longer than seems necessary or usual

• drag on His speech seemed to drag on for hours. People were yawning and looking at their watches, but he still kept going!
  
  
• drag on The case dragged on for many years because the defendant's lawyers kept appealing to higher and higher courts.
  
  

Nouns often used as subjects with drag on: meeting, speech, case, trial, lecture, debate, movie, concert, lesson