| 释义 |
go (or put someone) through the millUndergo (or cause someone to undergo) an unpleasant experience: we have been through the mill, but it has been worth the fight...- However, their exertions in Yorkshire seemed to have caught up with them as Celtic put them through the mill from the kick-off.
- All I've done is sit at a desk in a well-heated room, drinking coffee and eating chocolate, while I put Rebus through the mill for the umpteenth time.
- If I'd known putting you through the mill would bring about this kind of improvement, I wouldn't have wasted all that time talking.
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