a drag

A tedious experience, a bore, as in After several thousand times, signing your autograph can be a drag. This seemingly modern term was army slang during the Civil War. The allusion probably is to drag as something that impedes progress. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]

Words nearby a drag

a chromosome, a coruña, a date which will live in infamy, a dog is a man's best friend, a doll's house, a drag, a due, a far cry, a farewell to arms, a few, a fiber