get one's tits in a wringer

In its most literal sense, a mangler is someone or something that mangles — twists, tears, or mutilates something, whether laundry in a mechanical mangle or more figuratively a piece of text, a language, or a task. As slang, it can describe someone who habitually botches things or 'mangles' language (e.g., a mangler of idioms). In UK English, the mangle was a household laundry device, so 'mangler' as the operator of that machine was once an ordinary occupational term. Today it reads primarily as humorous or figurative.

(idiomatic, Britain, Ireland, humorous, informal, ) To become overwrought or unnecessarily upset over a trivial matter.

(North America, informal, vulgar) An uncomfortable personal state of affairs involving injury, defeat, or other trouble, especially a state of affairs resulting from one's own ill-considered actions.

(slang, also, AAVE) To misunderstand or misconstrue; to misinterpret; to be confused or in error.