drag on
• (of a process or situation) continue at tedious and unnecessary length.
• "the dispute between the two families dragged on for years"
Similar:
persist,
continue,
go on,
carry on,
extend,
run on,
be protracted,
linger,
endure,
keep up,
hold,
prevail,
subsist,
• suck on the end of a lit cigarette so as to inhale the smoke produced by the burning tobacco.
• "she dragged on a low-tar cigarette"
