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单词 to draw water to one's mill
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to draw water to one's mill
P5. to draw water to one's mill and variants [compare Italian tirar l'acqua al proprio mulino (14th cent.)] : to seize every advantage. Obsolete.
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1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Garden of Pleasure f. 110 All draw water to their owne mill.
1649 J. Howell Preheminence Parl. 10 Lewis the eleventh..could well tell how to play his game, and draw water to his owne Mill.
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. viii. 118 The Invention of bringing more water to the Popes Mill.
1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 58 Every miller wad weise the water to his ain mill.
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