I would just have to hold my ground and drag it out into the real world somehow.

To drag him out into the light, as it were.

"What has my foolish daughter been up to, dragging you out into the night?"

I dragged your child out into the big bad world and got him killed.

The strike that everyone thought would be over in a few days soon dragged out into weeks.

This promises to drag out the case still longer, perhaps well into the summer.

Maybe I can force them to drag it out into the open.

Both men bent down and dragged the body out into the light.

She dragged it out into the middle of the room.

I wondered if he'd seen the Taliban drag his parents out into the street.