It was draining, mind-altering work.
To Len Hutton's summation that the ball, pitches and people here are hard, might be added the extremity of the weather, which drains mind and muscles of energy, as Joe Root has discovered.
The suspicion persists that the concerted effort required to reach Twickenham, coupled with the involvement of several key figures on the Saxons tour in June, drained minds and bodies, and the subsequent loss of Dave Ewers, Don Armand, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Jack Nowell, Julian Salvi and Phil Dolman to injury has clearly not helped.
There's radiators and drainers.' Strachan still laughs like a drain, mind.
The mammoth innings, so I am told, drains the mind as much as the body.
As he undergoes numerous cancer treatments that drain his mind and body, he trains in boxing and weightlifting.
Drain your mind of energy by getting engrossed in a book or by working on brainteasers and other puzzles.
Bearing in mind the draining function of regional lymph nodes at sites of peripheral infection, early accumulation of PrPTSE in the ipsilateral Ln. popliteus of our footpad-infected model animals is not surprising.
Posner decried the "serious problem" of a current system designed to address "relatively minor crimes" through harsh punishments, thereby draining resources for "legal minds," corrections facilities and people who could otherwise be productive if not incarcerated.
