millstone

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Mechanicalmillstonemill‧stone /ˈmɪlstəʊn $ -stoʊn/ noun [countable] 1 TEMone of the two large circular stones that crush grain into flour in a mill2 → a millstone round/around somebody’s neckExamples from the Corpusmillstone• This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.• Paradoxically, Anthea now threatened to become a millstone to drag him down.• He could choreograph for the company that was coming to feel like a millstone, and he could tour.• It regulated the output but not the power of a millstone.• In the centre was inset yet another millstone seeded with yellow stone-crop.• These colonies are millstones around our necks, as a noble lord of my acquaintance once said.• Now the speculators have hit hard times and are desperately trying to off-load the cars which have become millstones around their necks.• At the mercy of this resentment, this hateful millstone envy of the Calibans of this world.

单词	millstone
释义	millstone From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Mechanicalmillstonemill‧stone /ˈmɪlstəʊn $ -stoʊn/ noun [countable] 1 TEMone of the two large circular stones that crush grain into flour in a mill2 → a millstone round/around somebody’s neckExamples from the Corpusmillstone• This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.• Paradoxically, Anthea now threatened to become a millstone to drag him down.• He could choreograph for the company that was coming to feel like a millstone, and he could tour.• It regulated the output but not the power of a millstone.• In the centre was inset yet another millstone seeded with yellow stone-crop.• These colonies are millstones around our necks, as a noble lord of my acquaintance once said.• Now the speculators have hit hard times and are desperately trying to off-load the cars which have become millstones around their necks.• At the mercy of this resentment, this hateful millstone envy of the Calibans of this world.
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