millstone

(as) hard as the nether millstone

Tough or harsh and unlikely to submit. The phrase is Biblical in origin. That guy is as hard as the nether millstone—he'll never give you what you want in the negotiations.

a millstone about (one's) neck

An extremely difficult or disadvantageous burden or hindrance. I wish I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage has been nothing but a millstone about my neck. Given the man's laundry list of scandals, he's proving to be quite a millstone about the candidate's neck.

a millstone round (one's) neck

An extremely difficult or disadvantageous burden or hindrance. I wish I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage has been nothing but a millstone round my neck. Given the man's laundry list of scandals, he's proving to be quite a millstone round the candidate's neck.

look through a millstone

To have exceptional powers of perception. A millstone is opaque and thus is impossible to see through. I knew he was a dishonest person the minute I met him. I can look through a millstone, you know.

a millstone around (one's) neck

An extremely difficult or disadvantageous burden or hindrance. I wish I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage is a millstone around my neck. Given the advisor's laundry list of scandals, he's proving to be quite a millstone around the candidate's neck.

weep millstones

Said hyperbolically of one who is deemed so cold and indifferent as to be unable to cry tears. I've never seen Claire show any emotion—in fact, she probably weeps millstones. Why didn't you comfort that poor little girl? Do you weep millstones?

millstone about one's neck

a continual burden or handicap. This huge and expensive house is a millstone about my neck. Bill's inability to control his temper is a millstone about his neck.

millstone around one's neck

A heavy burden, as in Julie finds Grandma, who is crabby, a millstone around her neck. The literal hanging of a millstone about the neck is mentioned as a punishment in the New Testament (Matthew 18:6), causing the miscreant to be drowned. Its present figurative use was first recorded in a history of the Quakers (c. 1720).

a millstone around your neck

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a millstone round your neck

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COMMON If something is a millstone around your neck or a millstone round your neck, it is a very unpleasant problem or responsibility that you cannot escape from. The country's inefficient telephone company has been a millstone round the government's neck. Long-term illness can make you feel like a millstone around your family's necks. Note: Millstone is often used on its own with this meaning. There is the continuing millstone of the country's enormous foreign debt. Note: A millstone is one of a pair of very heavy round flat stones which are used to grind grain. Jesus referred to children in Matthew 18:5 by saying, `Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.'

hard as the nether millstone

callous and unyielding.

The nether millstone is the lower of the two millstones by which corn is ground. The phrase alludes to Job 41:24: ‘His heart is as firm as a stone, and as hard as a piece of the nether millstone’.

a millstone round your neck

a very severe impediment or disadvantage.

A millstone was a large circular stone used to grind corn. The phrase alludes to a method of executing people by throwing them into deep water with a heavy stone attached to them, a fate believed to have been suffered by several early Christian martyrs.

a millstone around/round somebody’s ˈneck

something which limits your freedom or makes you worry: My debts are a millstone round my neck.A millstone is a very large heavy flat stone used to crush grain to make flour. This phrase refers to an old form of punishing people by tying a heavy stone around their necks and dropping them into deep water to drown.

See also: around, millstone, neck, round

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

millstone (around one's neck), to bear/carry a

To bear a heavy burden, literal or figurative. The idea is mentioned in the Bible in the Gospel of Matthew (18:6), as a stone to be hung around the neck of an offender who will then be drowned. Even though grain continued for many centuries to be ground by using a pair of heavy circular stones, by the sixteenth century the term was also being used figuratively for an emotional or mental burden. Jeremy Bentham used it in his treatise on usury (1787): “The millstone intended for the necks of those vermin . . . the dealers in corn, was found to fall upon the heads of the consumers.”

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释义	millstone (as) hard as the nether millstone Tough or harsh and unlikely to submit. The phrase is Biblical in origin. That guy is as hard as the nether millstone—he'll never give you what you want in the negotiations. See also: hard, millstone, nether a millstone about (one's) neck An extremely difficult or disadvantageous burden or hindrance. I wish I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage has been nothing but a millstone about my neck. Given the man's laundry list of scandals, he's proving to be quite a millstone about the candidate's neck. See also: millstone, neck a millstone round (one's) neck An extremely difficult or disadvantageous burden or hindrance. I wish I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage has been nothing but a millstone round my neck. Given the man's laundry list of scandals, he's proving to be quite a millstone round the candidate's neck. See also: millstone, neck, round look through a millstone To have exceptional powers of perception. A millstone is opaque and thus is impossible to see through. I knew he was a dishonest person the minute I met him. I can look through a millstone, you know. See also: look, millstone, through a millstone around (one's) neck An extremely difficult or disadvantageous burden or hindrance. I wish I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage is a millstone around my neck. Given the advisor's laundry list of scandals, he's proving to be quite a millstone around the candidate's neck. See also: around, millstone, neck weep millstones Said hyperbolically of one who is deemed so cold and indifferent as to be unable to cry tears. I've never seen Claire show any emotion—in fact, she probably weeps millstones. Why didn't you comfort that poor little girl? Do you weep millstones? See also: millstone, weep Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. millstone about one's neck a continual burden or handicap. This huge and expensive house is a millstone about my neck. Bill's inability to control his temper is a millstone about his neck. See also: millstone, neck McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. millstone around one's neck A heavy burden, as in Julie finds Grandma, who is crabby, a millstone around her neck. The literal hanging of a millstone about the neck is mentioned as a punishment in the New Testament (Matthew 18:6), causing the miscreant to be drowned. Its present figurative use was first recorded in a history of the Quakers (c. 1720). See also: around, millstone, neck The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. a millstone around your neck BRITISH, AMERICAN or a millstone round your neck BRITISH COMMON If something is a millstone around your neck or a millstone round your neck, it is a very unpleasant problem or responsibility that you cannot escape from. The country's inefficient telephone company has been a millstone round the government's neck. Long-term illness can make you feel like a millstone around your family's necks. Note: Millstone is often used on its own with this meaning. There is the continuing millstone of the country's enormous foreign debt. Note: A millstone is one of a pair of very heavy round flat stones which are used to grind grain. Jesus referred to children in Matthew 18:5 by saying, `Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.' See also: around, millstone, neck Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. hard as the nether millstone callous and unyielding. The nether millstone is the lower of the two millstones by which corn is ground. The phrase alludes to Job 41:24: ‘His heart is as firm as a stone, and as hard as a piece of the nether millstone’. See also: hard, millstone, nether a millstone round your neck a very severe impediment or disadvantage. A millstone was a large circular stone used to grind corn. The phrase alludes to a method of executing people by throwing them into deep water with a heavy stone attached to them, a fate believed to have been suffered by several early Christian martyrs. See also: millstone, neck, round Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary a millstone around/round somebody’s ˈneck something which limits your freedom or makes you worry: My debts are a millstone round my neck.A millstone is a very large heavy flat stone used to crush grain to make flour. This phrase refers to an old form of punishing people by tying a heavy stone around their necks and dropping them into deep water to drown. See also: around, millstone, neck, round Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary millstone (around one's neck), to bear/carry a To bear a heavy burden, literal or figurative. The idea is mentioned in the Bible in the Gospel of Matthew (18:6), as a stone to be hung around the neck of an offender who will then be drowned. Even though grain continued for many centuries to be ground by using a pair of heavy circular stones, by the sixteenth century the term was also being used figuratively for an emotional or mental burden. Jeremy Bentham used it in his treatise on usury (1787): “The millstone intended for the necks of those vermin . . . the dealers in corn, was found to fall upon the heads of the consumers.” See also: bear, carry, millstone The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: (as) hard as the nether millstone hard as the nether millstone nether corn in Egypt apple of apple of eye apple of my eye apple of one's eye get thee behind me as you sow, so shall you reap References in periodicals archive Prior to Millstone, Neuberger held various senior executive roles. Millstone Medical Welcomes New CEO --, Elspeth Hayes and Birgitta Stephenson in press 'Mapping a millstone: the dynamics of use-wear and residues on a Central Australian seed grinding implement', Australian Archaeology. Western Desert tjiwa- and tjungari- type grindstones and their archaeological significance His party has left our city with over PS12m in annual PFI rents to pay for the next 15 years - this is the real millstone around our neck on top of his Government's massive cuts. Deal was good for city The agency approved a similar request for the Millstone 2 unit in April. Hotter water OK'd for Ct. nuke; Millstone gets federal approval They have been farming at Millstone Moor Farm since 2008 and are well-known in sheep breeding circles. NSA's North Sheep returns to Cumbria; EVENT With nowhere else to put its nuclear waste, the Millstone Power Station overlooking Long Island Sound is sealing it up in massive steel canisters on what used to be a parking lot. US power plants now preparing long-term nuclear waste storage facilities D Stokes, detached garage, Millstone Farm-\|house, Manchester Road, Marsden. PLANNING aptsandlofts.com is about to launch sales at The Millstone, a new eight-story, 14-unit condo in Long Island City's Queens Plaza North. One-of-a-kind penthouse prices: Apatsandlofts Alex Salmond famously described the pound sterling as the "millstone round Scotland's neck". Reckless gamble; RECORD VIEW One of these experts was Erik Millstone, a professor of political science at the University of Sussex. FOOD SAFETY/ASPARTAME : SCIENTISTS QUESTION EFSA'S INTEGRITY WITH the ever increasing difficulty to keep your head above water, it seems there's a surefire ministerial operation to load a millstone around your neck to end your dreams of keeping afloat. Let down by the politicians; Yousay IN YOUR OPINION.. The give-away is on its website news section, with a headline screaming: "Millstone approval for Liverpool Science Park." trading gossip Millstone, the school district's attorney, produced one, Freshwater glumly complained that school officials had gone through his classroom. Mr. Freshwater's classroom crusade: how an Ohio teacher became a public school district's cross to bear The Millstone 1 nuclear reactor, a near-twin sister to Shoreham that was approved in 1966, is a different story. A tale of two reactors: the different destinies of two almost-twin nuclear reactors provide a forecast of our country's energy prospects if we don't heed the futures they foreshadow
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