Answer to Question #293133 in English for alex

Question

the long drawn out something might develop into a national something

Answer 1

Long drawn out means lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story of great length; long: a long-drawn-out line of soldiers. Many nationalist parties had been engaged in long-drawn-out struggles with those individuals and institutions very frequently stigmatized as ' feudal ', as profoundly conservative and as being essentially colonial creations. There was a long-drawn-out argument about the protection of the breakwater.