mill

See:
  • (someone) could sell sawdust to a lumber mill
  • a mill cannot grind with water that is past
  • all is grist that comes to the mill
  • fill-mill
  • gin mill
  • go through the mill
  • go through/put somebody through the mill
  • grist for (one's) mill
  • grist for the mill
  • grist for the mill, that's
  • grist for/to somebody's mill
  • grist to (one's) mill
  • grist to the mill
  • mill about
  • mill around
  • mill cannot grind with water that is past
  • mill out
  • milled
  • mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small
  • mills of the gods grind slowly
  • mills of the gods grind slowly(, but they grind exceedingly fine)
  • mills of the gods grind slowly, the
  • pill mill
  • put (one) through the mill
  • rumor mill
  • rumour mill
  • run of the mill
  • run-of-the-mill
  • the mills of God grind slowly(, but they grind exceedingly fine)
  • through the mill
  • through the mill, to go/to be put
  • tilt at windmills
  • water to (one's) mill
References in classic literature
I have been pressing my elbows on the arms of my chair, and dreaming that I was standing on the bridge in front of Dorlcote Mill, as it looked one February afternoon many years ago.
The Mill on the Floss
I may add that I am well acquainted with our manufacturing towns in England, and have visited many mills in Manchester and elsewhere in the same manner.
The owners of the mills are particularly careful to allow no persons to enter upon the possession of these houses, whose characters have not undergone the most searching and thorough inquiry.
American Notes for General Circulation
The great mills were getting under way--one could hear a vast stirring, a rolling and rumbling and hammering.
Then men in these mills were all black with soot, and hollow-eyed and gaunt; they worked with fierce intensity, rushing here and there, and never lifting their eyes from their tasks.
Jungle
It cannot be denied that Mills seems to have acted somewhat unscrupulously.
Arrow of Gold
Miss Mills, with an air of superior wisdom and benevolence, smiled upon us.
I learnt, from this, that Miss Mills had had her trials in the course of a chequered existence; and that to these, perhaps, I might refer that wise benignity of manner which I had already noticed.
David Copperfield
"Hold thy peace, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "though they look like mills they are not so; I have already told thee that enchantments transform things and change their proper shapes; I do not mean to say they really change them from one form into another, but that it seems as though they did, as experience proved in the transformation of Dulcinea, sole refuge of my hopes."
The millers belonging to the mills, when they saw the boat coming down the river, and on the point of being sucked in by the draught of the wheels, ran out in haste, several of them, with long poles to stop it, and being all mealy, with faces and garments covered with flour, they presented a sinister appearance.
Don Quixote
By the time I had seen the lawyer who had handled Jackson's case, and the two foremen and the superintendent at the mills who had testified, I began to feel that there was something after all in Ernest's contention.
If he wasn't great, would he have charge of the law business of the Sierra Mills, of the Erston Land Syndicate, of the Berkeley Consolidated, of the Oakland, San Leandro, and Pleasanton Electric?
The Iron Heel
Polly put on her thimble in silence, but as Miss Mills spread the white flannel over her lap, she exclaimed, "Why, it looks like a shroud!
"No, dear, thank God, it is n't, but it might have been, if we had n't saved the poor little soul," cried Miss Mills, with a sudden brightening of the face, which made it beautiful in spite of the stiff gray curl that bobbed on each temple, the want of teeth, and a crooked nose.
An Old Fashioned Girl
Mills was still there, but Arthur did not see him, as he passed like a hunted man across the hall and out along the gravel.
Adam Bede