drag something out of somebody
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdrag something out of somebody phrasal verbFORCE somebody TO DO somethingto make someone tell you something when they had not intended to tell you or were not supposed to tell you Police finally dragged a confession out of him. → drag→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusdrag out of • This certainly opened up the subject and dragged it out of the closet.