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词组 millstone
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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.

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